The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 55
“But don’t strike me—please don’t—and I’ll do anything you want me to.”
Who acts: you, Oz · What happens: not strike, not do, do, want · To what, where: Oz, anything
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, Oz), 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 | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 strike | cc |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 strike | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 strike | advmod |
| 5 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 do | discourse |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 strike | conj |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 strike | conj |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 anything | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 want | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 want | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | Oz | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | Oz | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | you | Oz | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
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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