The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 123

I have been good to the people, and they like me; but ever since this Palace was built, I have shut myself up and would not see any of them.

Who acts: I, people · What happens: be, like, build, shut up, not see · To what, where: me, Palace, myself, any

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, people), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 good	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 like	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	parataxis
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shut	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 shut	cc
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 since	advmod
16	since	since	SCONJ	_	20 built	mark
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 Palace	det
18	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 built	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 built	aux:pass
20	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 shut	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 built	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 shut	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 shut	aux
24	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 good	conj
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 shut	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 shut	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shut	conj
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 see	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 any	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	I		to the people; good property	tree rules
2	like	present	people	me		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
3	build	past · passive		this Palace		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	shut up	present · perfect	I	myself		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
5	not see	would	I not said here	any		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=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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