The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 92
Here are the other things I used to deceive you.”
Who acts: other things, I · What happens: be, use, deceive · To what, where: other things, you
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 (other things, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 things | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 used | nsubj |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 deceive | mark |
| 9 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 deceive | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the other things | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | I | the other things not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thing=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | deceive | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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