The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 48

“Oh, he will see you,” said the soldier who had taken her message to the Wizard, “although he does not like to have people ask to see him.

Who acts: soldier, people · What happens: see, say, take, not like, have, ask · To what, where: you, message, Wizard, people, soldier · 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, people), 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	_	6 see	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soldier	det
12	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 taken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 soldier	acl:relcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 message	nmod:poss
17	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Wizard	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Wizard	det
20	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	27 like	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 like	advmod
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
31	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 have	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ask	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	soldier	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the soldier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past · perfect	the soldier	girl's message	the Wizard	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to wizard=Destination
4	not like in a quote	present · do-support	soldier			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	people		tree rules
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	people not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here	soldier		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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