The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 89

But to those who are not honest, or who approach him from curiosity, he is most terrible, and few have ever dared ask to see his face.

Who acts: Wizard · What happens: not be, approach, be, dare, ask, see · To what, where: Wizard, curiosity, few, face

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 (Wizard), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 honest	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 those	case
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 honest	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 honest	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 honest	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 honest	advmod
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 approach	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 approach	cc
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 approach	nsubj
11	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 honest	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 approach	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 curiosity	case
14	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 approach	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 terrible	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 terrible	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 terrible	cop
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 terrible	amod
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 honest	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dared	cc
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dared	nsubj:pass
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dared	aux
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 dared	advmod
25	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 honest	conj
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dared	xcomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ask	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 face	nmod:poss
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 honest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present					to those; honest property	tree rules
2	approach	present		Wizard	curiosity			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	present	Wizard				terrible property	tree rules
4	dare	present · perfect · passive		few		ever		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive		Wizard's face				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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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