The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 123
But until she is dead I will not grant your wish.
Who acts: Witch, I, your · What happens: be, not grant, wish · To what, where: wish
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 (Witch, I, your), 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 | _ | 5 dead | cc |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 dead | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 grant | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 grant | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 grant | advmod |
| 9 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dead | parataxis |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grant | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Witch | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grant | future | I | your wish | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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