The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 85

“He is powerful and terrible, and if you come on an idle or foolish errand to bother the wise reflections of the Great Wizard, he might be angry and destroy you all in an instant.”

Who acts: man, you · What happens: be, come, bother, destroy · To what, where: idle errand, wise reflections, you, instant

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 (man, you), 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	_	4 powerful	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 powerful	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 powerful	cop
4	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 terrible	cc
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 powerful	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 angry	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 angry	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 angry	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	17 errand	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 errand	det
14	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 errand	amod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 foolish	cc
16	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 idle	conj
17	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bother	mark
19	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 reflections	det
21	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reflections	amod
22	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bother	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 Wizard	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Wizard	det
25	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Wizard	amod
26	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 reflections	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 angry	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 angry	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 angry	cop
31	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 powerful	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 destroy	cc
33	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 angry	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 destroy	obj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 you	nmod:unmarked
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 instant	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 instant	det
38	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 destroy	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 powerful	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 powerful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	man			powerful property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		man not said here				tree rules
3	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		a idle errand		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on errand=Location
4	bother in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the wise reflections of the Great Wizard			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reflection=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	might	man			angry property	tree rules
6	destroy in a quote	present	man not said here	you	a instant		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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