The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 10
“Bless your dear heart,” she said, “I am sure I can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas.”
Who acts: Glinda · What happens: bless, say, be, tell, get back · To what, where: dear heart, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glinda), 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 | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 2 | Bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bless | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tell | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Kansas | case |
| 26 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | infinitive | your dear heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Glinda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Glinda | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | Glinda | you | of a way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 5 | get back in a quote | to-infinitive | Glinda not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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