The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 90
I am the Guardian of the Gates, and since you demand to see the Great Oz I must take you to his Palace.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, demand, see, take · To what, where: Guardian, Great Oz, you, Palace
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Guardian | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Guardian | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Guardian | det |
| 4 | Guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Gates | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gates | det |
| 7 | Gates | Gate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Guardian | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 10 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 demand | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 demand | nsubj |
| 12 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 demand | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Oz | det |
| 16 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Oz | amod |
| 17 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Guardian | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Palace | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Guardian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the Guardian | of the Gates | tree rules | |||
| 2 | demand speech: request | present | you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Great Oz | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | must | I | you | Wizard's Palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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