The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 12
“Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please,” replied Oz. “You must excuse me for taking your head off, but I shall have to do it in order to put your brains in their proper place.”
Who acts: Oz., You · What happens: sit down, reply, excuse, take off, have, do · To what, where: chair, Oz., head, brains, proper place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz., 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 | _ | 6 sit | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 sit | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sit | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 chair | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 chair | det |
| 10 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sit | punct |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 sit | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sit | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sit | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 excuse | punct |
| 18 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 excuse | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 excuse | aux |
| 20 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 excuse | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 taking | mark |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 excuse | advcl |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 taking | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | aux |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 excuse | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 have | xcomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 do | obj |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 put | mark |
| 36 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 in | fixed |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 put | mark |
| 38 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 do | advcl |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 brains | nmod:poss |
| 40 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 put | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 place | case |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 place | nmod:poss |
| 43 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 place | amod |
| 44 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 excuse | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 excuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down in a quote | infinitive | that chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Oz. | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | must | You | Oz. | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take off in a quote | gerund | You not said here | your head | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | Oz. | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Oz. not said here | head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | Oz. not said here | your brains | brains's proper place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brain=Theme in place=Destination |
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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