The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 167

“Because of all Wizards you are the greatest, and alone have power to grant my request,” answered the Lion.

Who acts: you, Wizards, power, Lion, my · What happens: be, have, grant, answer, request · To what, where: power, request · 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 (you, Wizards, power, Lion), 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	_	21 answered	punct
2	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 Wizards	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 Because	fixed
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Wizards	det
5	Wizards	wizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 greatest	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 greatest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 greatest	det
9	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 Wizards	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 alone	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 alone	cc
12	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 greatest	conj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answered	parataxis
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 grant	mark
16	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 request	nmod:poss
18	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grant	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Lion	det
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you		great property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		you not said here			tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	all Wizards	power		tree rules
4	grant in a quote	to-infinitive	power not said here	my request		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	past	the Lion			tree rules
6	request in a quote		my			nom request «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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