The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 128

When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do away with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises.”

Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: come, be, promise, do away, melt, say · To what, where: me, anything, Witch, promises · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I, my), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 ashamed	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 willing	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 willing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 willing	cop
9	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 promise	mark
11	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 willing	xcomp
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 promise	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promise	ccomp
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 Witch	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Witch	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Witch	amod
22	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 melted	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 melted	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 but	punct
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 melted	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 melted	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 melted	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 melted	aux
30	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 melted	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 ashamed	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 ashamed	cop
35	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
36	to	to	PART	_	37 say	mark
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ashamed	xcomp
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 keep	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 keep	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 keep	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 keep	advmod
42	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 say	ccomp
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 promises	nmod:poss
44	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 keep	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 ashamed	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	you		me			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	is	past	I				willing property	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	I not said here	anything				vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do away a condition, not said to happen	would	you				with the other Witch; away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	melt	present · perfect	you	Witch		now		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result
6	is	present	I				ashamed property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	not keep	can	I	my promises				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
9	promise		my					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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