The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 168
I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not think, melt, end · To what, where: little girl, me, wicked deeds · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wicked | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wicked | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wicked | cop |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wicked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 thought | advmod |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wicked | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 21 able | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 melt | mark |
| 23 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 melt | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 end | cc |
| 26 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 melt | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deeds | amod |
| 29 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 end | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | day | wicked property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past | I | a little girl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | would | you | ever | able property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | melt | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | ||||
| 5 | end | infinitive | you not said here | my wicked deeds | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality deed=Eventuality |
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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