The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 156

And if he is the great Head, he will be at my mercy; for I will roll this head all about the room until he promises to give us what we desire.

Who acts: Lion, I, we · What happens: be, roll, promise, give, desire · To what, where: great Head, mercy, head, us

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, we), 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	_	14 mercy	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 Head	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Head	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Head	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Head	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Head	amod
7	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mercy	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Head	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mercy	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 mercy	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 mercy	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 mercy	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mercy	nmod:poss
14	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 roll	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 roll	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 roll	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 roll	aux
19	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mercy	parataxis
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 head	det
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roll	obj
22	all	all	ADV	_	25 room	advmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roll	obl
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 promises	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 promises	nsubj
28	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 roll	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 promises	xcomp
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 desire	obj
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 desire	nsubj
34	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 give	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 mercy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	Lion	the great Head				tree rules
2	is	future	Lion			my mercy		tree rules
3	roll	future	I	this head			about the room	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme about room=Trajectory
4	promise speech: promise	present	Lion					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lion not said here		us			tree rules
6	desire	present	we					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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