The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 10
“No one has ever destroyed her before, so I naturally thought she would make slaves of you, as she has of the rest.
Who acts: I, Guardian · What happens: destroy, think, make, have · To what, where: one, slaves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Guardian), 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 | _ | 6 destroyed | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 destroyed | aux |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 destroyed | advmod |
| 6 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 destroyed | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 destroyed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 destroyed | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 slaves | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 has | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no one | ever | before property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | naturally property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | would | Guardian | slaves of you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Product | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | Guardian | of the rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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