The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 168

The Ball of Fire burned fiercely for a time, and the voice said, “Bring me proof that the Wicked Witch is dead, and that moment I will give you courage.

Who acts: Ball, voice, Wicked Witch, moment · What happens: burn, say, bring, be, give · To what, where: proof, voice, courage, you · 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 (Ball, voice, Wicked Witch, moment), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ball	det
2	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 burned	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Fire	case
4	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ball	nmod
5	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	5 burned	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burned	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Bring	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Bring	punct
17	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Bring	obj
19	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Bring	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 dead	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Witch	det
22	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Witch	amod
23	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dead	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Bring	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 moment	det
29	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	nsubj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 give	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Bring	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the Ball of Fire			time	fiercely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the voice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring in a quote	infinitive		proof	the voice = voice			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination proof=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the Wicked Witch				dead property	tree rules
5	give in a quote	future	that moment	courage	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient courage=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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