The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 158
“I shall keep it, just the same,” said the Witch, laughing at her, “and someday I shall get the other one from you, too.”
Who acts: Witch, I, wicked creature · What happens: keep, say, laugh, get · To what, where: right, someday · 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, I, wicked creature), 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 | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 same | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 same | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 same | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Witch | det |
| 14 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughing | punct |
| 16 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laughing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 22 | someday | someday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | amod |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 get | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 too | punct |
| 32 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 get | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | shall | the Witch = witch | right | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | I not said here | at Witch | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | shall | a wicked creature = creature | someday | from you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from you=Source |
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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