The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 40
“I have wasted the charm of the Golden Cap to no purpose,” she said, “for the Winged Monkeys cannot help me.”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: waste, say, wing, not help · To what, where: charm, Dorothy · 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 (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 | _ | 4 wasted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wasted | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wasted | aux |
| 4 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 charm | det |
| 6 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wasted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Cap | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cap | det |
| 9 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Cap | amod |
| 10 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 charm | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 purpose | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 purpose | det |
| 13 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wasted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wasted | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wasted | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Monkeys | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Monkeys | det |
| 22 | Winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Monkeys | amod |
| 23 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 help | obl |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 help | advmod |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste in a quote | present · perfect | Dorothy | the charm of the Golden Cap | to no purpose | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wing in a quote | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not help in a quote | can | Dorothy | for the Winged Monkeys | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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