The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 164
“Didn’t you know water would be the end of me?” asked the Witch, in a wailing, despairing voice.
Who acts: you, water, Witch · What happens: not know, be, ask, despair · To what, where: end, wailing, voice · 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 (you, water, 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 | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 end | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 end | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 end | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Witch | det |
| 17 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wailing | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wailing | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wailing | det |
| 21 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 despairing | punct |
| 23 | despairing | despair | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | advcl |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 despairing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | would | water | the end | of the Witch = witch | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Witch | a wailing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | despair | gerund | the Witch not said here | voice | 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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