The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 29

I’d much rather go back to Kansas with you and be in a circus again.”

Who acts: I · What happens: have, go back, be · To what, where: Kansas, circus

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ’d	nsubj
2	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 ’d	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Kansas	case
8	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 circus	cc
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 circus	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 circus	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 circus	det
15	circus	circus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 circus	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’d	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I					tree rules
2	go back	infinitive	I not said here	Kansas			with you	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kansas=Result
3	is	infinitive	I not said here		a circus	again		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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