The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 118

“I never grant favors without some return,” said Oz; “but this much I will promise.

Who acts: Oz, this · What happens: not grant, say, promise · To what, where: favors · 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 (Oz, this), 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 grant	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grant	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 grant	advmod
4	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
5	favors	favor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grant	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 return	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 return	det
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grant	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grant	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 grant	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 promise	cc
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 promise	nsubj:outer
17	much	much	ADV	_	20 promise	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 promise	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 promise	aux
20	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not grant in a quote	present	Oz	favors	without some return	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent favor=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Oz			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	future	this			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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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