The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 128
“If I cannot harness you,” said the Witch to the Lion, speaking through the bars of the gate, “I can starve you.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: not harness, say, speak, starve · To what, where: you, bars · 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), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 harness | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 harness | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 harness | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 harness | advmod |
| 6 | harness | harness | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 harness | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 harness | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 harness | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Witch | det |
| 12 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Lion | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lion | det |
| 15 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Witch | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 speaking | punct |
| 17 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 bars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bars | det |
| 20 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 speaking | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gate | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gate | det |
| 23 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bars | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 starve | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 starve | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 starve | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 starve | aux |
| 28 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 speaking | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 starve | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not harness a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | the Witch = witch | you | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | the Witch not said here | the bars of the gate | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | starve in a quote | can | the Witch = witch | you | tree rules |
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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