The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 75
But no person could command these strange creatures more than three times.
Who acts: person · What happens: command · To what, where: strange creatures · 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 (person), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 command | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 command | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 command | aux |
| 5 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 creatures | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creatures | amod |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 command | obj |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 three | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 more | fixed |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 creatures | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 command | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | could | no person | this strange creatures | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent creature=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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