The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 97
“Bring that beast to me, for I have a mind to harness him like a horse, and make him work.”
Who acts: you, Wicked Witch, mind, Cap · What happens: bring, have, harness, make, work · To what, where: beast, Wicked Witch, mind, Cap
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 (you, Wicked Witch, mind, Cap), 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 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 beast | det |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Bring | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mind | det |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 harness | mark |
| 14 | harness | harness | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 harness | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 harness | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that beast | the Wicked Witch = witch | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beast=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the Wicked Witch = witch | a mind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | harness in a quote | to-infinitive | a mind not said here | Cap | like a horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | the Wicked Witch = witch not said here | Cap | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work in a quote | infinitive | Cap not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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