The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 24
“Go to those people,” said the Witch, “and tear them to pieces.”
Who acts: Witch · What happens: go, say, tear · To what, where: people · 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Witch | det |
| 10 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tear | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tear | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tear | cc |
| 14 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Witch | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tear | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | to that people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tear in a quote | infinitive | the Witch not said here | people | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result |
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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