The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 12

“We have surely lost our way,” he said, “and unless we find it again in time to reach the Emerald City, I shall never get my brains.”

Who acts: We, Dorothy · What happens: lose, say, find, reach, not get · To what, where: way, Emerald City, brains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Dorothy), 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	_	5 lost	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 lost	advmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
15	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	17 find	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 get	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 find	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 reach	mark
23	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 City	det
25	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 City	compound
26	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 reach	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 get	advmod
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brains	nmod:poss
33	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 get	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · perfect	We	our way		surely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	way	again; time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	reach in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the Emerald City			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme
5	not get in a quote	shall	Dorothy	my brains			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus

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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