The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 35

“Why, it is said that he never lets anyone come into his presence.

Who acts: Dorothy, anyone · What happens: say, not let, come · To what, where: house, anyone, presence · 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 (Dorothy, anyone), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux:pass
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lets	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lets	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 lets	advmod
10	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 lets	obj
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lets	xcomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 presence	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 presence	nmod:poss
15	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present · passive		house		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	not let in a quote	present	Dorothy	anyone		tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive	anyone not said here		Dorothy's presence	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location

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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