The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 139

I cannot tell you how to use them, however; you must find that out for yourself.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not tell, use, find out · To what, where: you, head, that · 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 (I, you), 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 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 use	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 use	mark
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 use	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 however	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	8 use	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 find	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 find	compound:prt
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 yourself	case
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 find	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	head		however property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	find out	must	you	that		for yourself	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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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