The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 100

When they were on, Dorothy could not take them off had she wished, but of course she did not wish to be blinded by the glare of the Emerald City, so she said nothing.

Who acts: glasses, Dorothy, Guardian, glare · What happens: be, not take, wish, not wish, blind, say · To what, where: glasses, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glasses, Dorothy, Guardian, glare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 on	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 on	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 on	cop
4	on	on	ADV	_	9 take	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 on	punct
6	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 take	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 take	advmod
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	off	off	ADV	_	14 wished	advmod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wished	aux
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wished	nsubj
14	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 take	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 wish	cc
17	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	22 wish	advmod
18	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 of	fixed
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wish	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wish	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 wish	advmod
22	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 blinded	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 blinded	aux:pass
25	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 wish	ccomp
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 glare	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 glare	det
28	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 blinded	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 City	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 City	det
31	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 City	compound
32	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 glare	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 said	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 said	nsubj
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 take	parataxis
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 said	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	glasses = glass		on property	tree rules
2	not take	could	Dorothy	glasses = glass		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	wish	past · perfect	Guardian		off property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	not wish	past · do-support	Guardian			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	blind not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the glare of the Emerald City			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	Guardian	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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