The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 155
And if he is the lovely Lady, I shall pretend to spring upon her, and so compel her to do my bidding.
Who acts: Lion, I, my · What happens: be, pretend, compel, do, bid · To what, where: lovely Lady, many, bidding
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 (Lion, I, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pretend | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 Lady | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Lady | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lady | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lady | det |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Lady | amod |
| 7 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pretend | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lady | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pretend | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pretend | aux |
| 11 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 spring | case |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pretend | obl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pretend | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 compel | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 compel | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 compel | advmod |
| 19 | compel | compel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pretend | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 compel | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 compel | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | Lion | the lovely Lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pretend | shall | I | spring | upon many | tree rules | |||
| 3 | compel | infinitive | I not said here | many | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | my bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | bid | my | nom bidding «communication transitive»: 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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