The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 88
If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first.
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, use, send, do · To what, where: me, magic power, you, something
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 (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 use | mark |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 power | nmod:poss |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 power | compound |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 send | mark |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 use | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 send | iobj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 send | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 send | conj |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | my magic power | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | do | must | you | something | again | for me; first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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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