The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 27
If I should go out of this Palace my people would soon discover I am not a Wizard, and then they would be vexed with me for having deceived them.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: go out, discover, not be, vex, have, deceive · To what, where: Palace, Wizard, people
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 (I, people), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 discover | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 Palace | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Palace | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Palace | det |
| 8 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 discover | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 discover | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 discover | advmod |
| 13 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Wizard | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Wizard | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 Wizard | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Wizard | det |
| 18 | Wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discover | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vexed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 vexed | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 vexed | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 vexed | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 vexed | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 vexed | aux:pass |
| 25 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 discover | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 vexed | obl |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 having | mark |
| 29 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 vexed | advcl |
| 30 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 having | obj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 deceived | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 discover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out a condition, not said to happen | should | I | this Palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | would | my people | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | I | a Wizard | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | vex | would · passive | people | then | with me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | deceive | past | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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