The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 151
“When the Witch is dead, come to me, and I will then give you the biggest and kindest and most loving heart in all the Land of Oz.”
Who acts: Witch, dead, Beast · What happens: be, come, give · To what, where: Beast, biggest loving heart, you, Land
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, dead, Beast), 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 | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dead | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 4 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 give | advmod |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 heart | det |
| 19 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 heart | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kindest | cc |
| 21 | kindest | kind | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 biggest | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heart | cc |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 loving | advmod |
| 24 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heart | amod |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Land | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 Land | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Land | det |
| 29 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Oz. | case |
| 31 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Land | nmod |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Witch | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | dead | the Beast = beast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | the Beast = beast | the biggest loving heart | you | all Land of Oz. | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient heart=Theme |
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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