The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 98
If you, who are Great and Terrible, cannot kill her yourself, how do you expect me to do it?”
Who acts: you, me · What happens: be, not kill, expect, do · To what, where: Witch, me, charm
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, me), 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 | _ | 6 Great | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Great | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Great | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Great | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Great | cop |
| 6 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kill | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Terrible | cc |
| 8 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Great | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Great | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 kill | advmod |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 kill | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 expect | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 expect | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 expect | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 expect | nsubj |
| 19 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kill | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 expect | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 expect | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 kill | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not kill | can | Witch | yourself obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | expect | present · do-support | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | charm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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