The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 130

So after that she took no food to the imprisoned Lion; but every day she came to the gate at noon and asked, “Are you ready to be harnessed like a horse?”

Who acts: Witch, you · What happens: take, imprison, come, ask, be, harness · To what, where: food, imprisoned Lion, gate · 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 took	mark
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 took	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Lion	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lion	det
10	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Lion	amod
11	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl:unmarked
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 gate	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gate	det
20	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 noon	case
22	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
27	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	cop
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 ready	nsubj
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 asked	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	32 harnessed	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 harnessed	aux:pass
32	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ready	xcomp
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 horse	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 horse	det
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 harnessed	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Witch	no food	the imprisoned Lion				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to lion=Destination
2	imprison	participle							vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	Witch			the gate	day; noon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	Witch not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	you					ready property	tree rules
6	harness in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here					like a horse	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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