The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 64
But it will take more than imagination to carry Dorothy back to Kansas, and I’m sure I don’t know how it can be done.”
Who acts: it, I · What happens: take, carry, be, not know, do · To what, where: imagination, Dorothy · 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 (it, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 take | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 imagination | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | advcl |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 carry | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Kansas | case |
| 13 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 back | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’m | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ’m | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ’m | nsubj |
| 17 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ’m | xcomp |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | ccomp |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 done | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 done | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 done | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 done | aux:pass |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 know | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | it | imagination | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imagination=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | Dorothy | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | present | I | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | can · passive | imagination | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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