The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 81
Only once more could she use this Golden Cap, for which reason she did not like to do so until all her other powers were exhausted.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: use, not like, do, exhaust · To what, where: reason, other powers
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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 use | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 use | advmod |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 Cap | nsubj |
| 8 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Cap | amod |
| 9 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 use | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reason | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 reason | case |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 reason | det |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reason | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 exhausted | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 powers | det:predet |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 powers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 powers | amod |
| 25 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 27 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 do | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | could | Witch | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | Witch | which reason not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Witch not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | exhaust | past · passive | Witch's other powers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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