The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 17
“Please make yourselves comfortable while I go to the door of the Throne Room and tell Oz you are here.”
Who acts: Oz, I · What happens: make, go, tell, be · To what, where: Oz, door · 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 (Oz, I), 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 | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 make | discourse |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Room | det |
| 14 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Room | compound |
| 15 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 door | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 18 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 here | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 here | cop |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | imperative | Oz not said here | Oz | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourselves=Product | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | I | the door of the Throne Room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Oz not said here | Oz | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Oz | here property | tree rules |
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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