The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 126
With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse; it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive.
Who acts: Witch, horse, Dorothy, Scarecrow · What happens: think, go, amuse, be, make, draw · To what, where: Cowardly Lion, courtyard, Witch, Scarecrow, chariot · 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 (Witch, horse, Dorothy, Scarecrow), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nsubj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 work | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Witch | det |
| 8 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 courtyard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 courtyard | det |
| 15 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 harness | cc |
| 17 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 courtyard | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lion | det |
| 19 | Cowardly | Cowardly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lion | compound |
| 20 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 amuse | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 amuse | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 amuse | aux |
| 27 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 amuse | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sure | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sure | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sure | cop |
| 32 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 amuse | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 make | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 make | mark |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 amuse | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 make | obj |
| 37 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 make | xcomp |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 39 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 draw | obj |
| 40 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 wished | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 wished | nsubj |
| 42 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 draw | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 go | mark |
| 44 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 wished | xcomp |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 drive | mark |
| 46 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 go | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Witch | with work | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | would | Witch | the Cowardly Lion | the courtyard and harness | like a horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | amuse | would | horse | Witch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Dorothy | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | horse not said here | Scarecrow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | draw | infinitive | Scarecrow not said here | Dorothy's chariot | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wish | past | Dorothy | whenever property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | drive | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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