The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 39
“You promised to send me back to Kansas when the Wicked Witch was destroyed,” said the girl.
Who acts: You, girl · What happens: promise, send back, destroy, say · To what, where: girl, Wicked Witch · 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, girl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 send | mark |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 send | iobj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 send | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Kansas | case |
| 9 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 send | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 destroyed | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Witch | det |
| 12 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Witch | amod |
| 13 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 destroyed | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 15 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 send | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | You | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | send back not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | the girl = girl | to Kansas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kansas=Destination | |||
| 3 | destroy in a quote | past · passive | the Wicked Witch | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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