The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 46

“That is very strange,” said Dorothy, “but we must try, in some way, to see him, or we shall have made our journey for nothing.”

Who acts: That, Dorothy, we, our · What happens: be, say, try, see, make, journey · To what, where: Dorothy, journey · 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 (That, Dorothy, we, our), 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	_	5 strange	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 strange	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strange	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 strange	advmod
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 strange	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 strange	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 try	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 try	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 try	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 try	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 try	aux
15	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 try	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 try	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 made	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 made	aux
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 try	parataxis
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 journey	nmod:poss
31	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 nothing	case
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 made	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That		strange property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try in a quote	must	we			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	Dorothy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	make in a quote	shall · perfect	we	our journey	for nothing	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent journey=Product for nothing=Asset
6	journey in a quote		our			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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