The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 14
“We are not so unlucky,” said the new ruler, “for this Palace and the Emerald City belong to us, and we can do just as we please.
Who acts: We, new ruler, Palace · What happens: not be, say, belong, do · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, new ruler, Palace), 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 | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 unlucky | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unlucky | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 unlucky | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 unlucky | advmod |
| 6 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ruler | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ruler | amod |
| 12 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 belong | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 belong | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Palace | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Palace | det |
| 17 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 belong | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 City | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 City | det |
| 20 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 City | compound |
| 21 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Palace | conj |
| 22 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 belong | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 do | cc |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 belong | conj |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 as | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 do | advmod |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 please | nsubj |
| 33 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 31 as | discourse |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | We | unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the new ruler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | this Palace and the Emerald City | us | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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