The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 15
“I will return to the Emerald City,” he replied, “for Oz has made me its ruler and the people like me.
Who acts: Winged · What happens: return, reply, make · To what, where: Winged · 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 (Winged), 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 return | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 return | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 return | aux |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 City | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 City | det |
| 7 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 City | compound |
| 8 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Oz | case |
| 16 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl:agent |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 people | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ruler | conj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 people | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | future | Winged | to the Emerald City result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Winged | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present · perfect | Winged | for Oz | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Product for oz=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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