The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 96

“Go to the strangers who are within my land and destroy them all except the Lion,” said the Wicked Witch.

Who acts: strangers, Wicked Witch · What happens: go, be, destroy, say · To what, where: strangers · 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 (strangers, Wicked 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	20 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 strangers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strangers	det
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Go	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 land	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 land	cop
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 land	nmod:poss
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strangers	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 destroy	cc
12	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 destroy	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 them	nmod:unmarked
15	except	except	ADP	_	17 Lion	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Lion	det
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 destroy	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Witch	det
22	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Witch	amod
23	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive			the strangers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stranger=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	present	the strangers			within my land	tree rules
3	destroy in a quote	infinitive		strangers = stranger		except the Lion	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the Wicked Witch				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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