The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 14
“You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when you put it on again.”
Who acts: You, head · What happens: be, take off, put on · To what, where: head, better one · 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 (You, head), 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 welcome | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 welcome | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 welcome | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 welcome | advmod |
| 5 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 welcome | csubj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 one | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 one | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 one | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 put | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 put | compound:prt |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 put | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 welcome | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take off in a quote | to-infinitive | my head | off property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | head | a better one | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | put on in a quote | past | you | head | again | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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