The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 23

He said he will grant you an audience, if you so desire; but each one of you must enter his presence alone, and he will admit but one each day.

Who acts: soldier, you, one · What happens: say, grant, so, enter, admit · To what, where: audience, you, desire, presence · 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 (soldier, you, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grant	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grant	aux
5	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 grant	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 audience	det
8	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grant	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 so	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 so	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 so	nsubj
12	so	so	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grant	parataxis
13	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 so	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 enter	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 enter	cc
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enter	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 one	nmod
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 enter	aux
21	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 presence	nmod:poss
23	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enter	obj
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 enter	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 admit	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 admit	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 admit	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 admit	aux
29	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 enter	conj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 one	cc
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 admit	conj
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 admit	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	soldier					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grant	future	soldier	a audience	you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal audience=Theme
3	so a condition, not said to happen	present	you	desire				tree rules
4	enter	must	each one of you	soldier's presence			alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination
5	admit speech: other	future	soldier			day		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=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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