The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 97
“Even if I wanted to, how could I kill the Wicked Witch?
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: want, kill · To what, where: Wicked Witch
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 (Dorothy), 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 | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wanted | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kill | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 kill | advmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Witch | det |
| 13 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Witch | amod |
| 14 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | past | Dorothy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | could | Dorothy | the Wicked Witch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=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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