The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 181

So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, “I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again.”

Who acts: Dorothy, we, Em · What happens: dry, say, suppose, try, be, not want · To what, where: eyes, gown, anybody · 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 (Dorothy, we, Em), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 dried	advmod
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dried	nsubj
3	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dried	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 suppose	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 suppose	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 suppose	nsubj
11	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 suppose	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 try	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 sure	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dried	conj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 want	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 want	advmod
24	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sure	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 kill	mark
26	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
27	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 kill	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	31 see	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	conj
32	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
33	Em	they	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 Aunt	nsubj
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 see	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dried	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dry	past	Dorothy	girl's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suppose in a quote	present	Dorothy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	try in a quote	must	we	gown			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	is in a quote	present	Dorothy			sure property	tree rules
6	not want in a quote	present · do-support	Dorothy				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	kill not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here	anybody			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Theme
8	see in a quote	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	aunt in a quote		Em = they				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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