The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 21

“If it won’t float,” remarked Dorothy, “it will be of no use to us.”

Who acts: gas, Dorothy · What happens: not float, remark, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gas, Dorothy), 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	_	9 remarked	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 float	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 float	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 float	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 float	advmod
6	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 remarked	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 float	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 float	punct
9	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 remarked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 use	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 use	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 use	cop
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 use	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 use	det
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remarked	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 use	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not float a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	gas			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remark speech: assert	participle	Dorothy			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	future	gas	us	of no use	tree rules

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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