The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 103

“There is no hope for me,” she said sadly, “for Oz will not send me home until I have killed the Wicked Witch of the West; and that I can never do.”

Who acts: hope · What happens: be, say, not send, kill, not do · To what, where: hope · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 hope	det
5	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hope	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 Oz	case
16	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 send	obl
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 send	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 send	advmod
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 send	iobj
21	home	home	ADV	_	19 send	advmod
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 killed	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 killed	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 killed	aux
25	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 send	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Witch	det
27	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Witch	amod
28	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 killed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 West	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 West	det
31	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Witch	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 do	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 do	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 do	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 do	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 do	aux
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 do	advmod
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 do	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no hope for me			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	hope				sadly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not send in a quote	future	hope not said here		hope		for Oz; home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	kill in a quote	present · perfect · passive		hope				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer witch=Result
5	not do in a quote	can	hope					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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