The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 51

At last I told him about the mark upon your forehead, and he decided he would admit you to his presence.”

Who acts: I, soldier · What happens: tell, decide, admit · To what, where: soldier, last, you, 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 (I, soldier), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 mark	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mark	det
8	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 forehead	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 forehead	nmod:poss
11	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mark	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 decided	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 decided	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 decided	nsubj
15	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 admit	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 admit	aux
18	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 decided	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 admit	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 presence	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 presence	nmod:poss
22	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 admit	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		soldier	last	about the mark upon your forehead	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about mark=Topic
2	decide	past	soldier					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	admit speech: other	would	soldier	you	soldier's presence			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to presence=Recipient

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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