The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 116
Of course I let them think so, because they were afraid of me, and promised to do anything I wished them to.
Who acts: I, clouds · What happens: let, think, be, promise, do, wish · To what, where: clouds, anything
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, clouds), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 think | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 afraid | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | cop |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 think | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 promised | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 promised | cc |
| 17 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 promised | xcomp |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wished | nsubj |
| 22 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 anything | acl:relcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wished | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wished | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | I | clouds = cloud | of course | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | clouds = cloud not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | clouds = cloud | of me; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | I not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | wish | past | I | clouds = cloud | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
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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