The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 110
All we can do is to carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch and leave her there.”
Who acts: we, All · What happens: do, be, leave · To what, where: girl
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 (we, All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 carry | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Witch | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Witch | det |
| 14 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Witch | amod |
| 15 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leave | cc |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 carry | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 leave | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | All | to the castle of the Wicked Witch; carry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | All not said here | girl | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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