The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 163
You must keep my secret and tell no one I am a humbug.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: keep, tell, be · To what, where: secret, one, humbug · 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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 secret | nmod:poss |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 humbug | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 humbug | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 humbug | det |
| 13 | humbug | humbug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | must | You | my secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | You not said here | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a humbug | tree rules |
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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