The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 169
But as long as the Witch lives, you must remain a coward.”
Who acts: Witch, you · What happens: live, remain · To what, where: coward
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, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 remain | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 remain | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 lives | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Witch | det |
| 6 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | nsubj |
| 7 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 remain | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lives | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 remain | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 remain | aux |
| 11 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coward | det |
| 13 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remain | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 remain | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Witch | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | must | you | a coward | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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