The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 99

“I do not know,” said the Head; “but that is my answer, and until the Wicked Witch dies you will not see your uncle and aunt again.

Who acts: Head, that, Wicked Witch, you · What happens: not know, say, be, die, not see · To what, where: answer, uncle · 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 (Head, that, Wicked Witch, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Head	det
10	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 answer	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	cop
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 answer	nmod:poss
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dies	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dies	cc
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 dies	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Witch	det
22	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Witch	amod
23	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dies	nsubj
24	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 dies	ccomp
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 uncle	nmod:poss
30	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 aunt	cc
32	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 uncle	conj
33	again	again	ADV	_	28 see	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the Head = head			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the Head			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	that	my answer		tree rules
4	die in a quote	present	the Wicked Witch			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not see in a quote	future	you	your uncle and aunt	again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer uncle=Stimulus

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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