The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 94
There is now but one Wicked Witch left in all this land, and when you can tell me she is dead I will send you back to Kansas—but not before.”
Who acts: you, Witch, I · What happens: leave, be, send · To what, where: one Wicked Witch, land, me, you · 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 (you, Witch, I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Witch | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Witch | nummod |
| 6 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Witch | amod |
| 7 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | conj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Witch | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 land | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 tell | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dead | cop |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 send | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 send | aux |
| 25 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 send | iobj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 send | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Kansas | case |
| 29 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 back | obl |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 before | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 before | cc |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 before | advmod |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 tell | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | one Wicked Witch not said here | in all land result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in land=Result | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | can · present | you | me | before, tell property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Witch | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | future | I | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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