The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 66
“Don’t speak so loud, or you will be overheard—and I should be ruined.
Who acts: you · What happens: not speak, overhear, ruin · To what, where: you, Wizard · 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), 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 | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 loud | advmod |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overheard | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 overheard | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 overheard | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 overheard | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 overheard | aux:pass |
| 12 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 speak | conj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ruined | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ruined | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ruined | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 ruined | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ruined | aux:pass |
| 18 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 speak | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | loud property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overhear in a quote | future · passive | you | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ruin in a quote | should · passive | Wizard | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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