The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 47

“I cannot tell,” answered the soldier, “for nobody has ever crossed the desert, unless it is Oz himself.”

Who acts: soldier · What happens: not tell, answer, cross, be · To what, where: desert, Oz · 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 (soldier), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crossed	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 crossed	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 nobody	case
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 crossed	obl
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 crossed	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 crossed	advmod
17	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tell	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 desert	det
19	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crossed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Oz	punct
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	24 Oz	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 Oz	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 Oz	cop
24	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 crossed	obl
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 Oz	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the soldier = soldier				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	the soldier				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cross in a quote	present · perfect		the desert	ever	for nobody	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Patient
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	soldier	Oz		band nmod	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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