The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 17
“By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City,” said Glinda, “for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler.”
Who acts: Glinda, City · What happens: mean, command, wing, carry, say, be · To what, where: Winged Monkeys, you, gates, people · 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, City), 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 | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 means | case |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Cap | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cap | det |
| 6 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Cap | amod |
| 7 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 command | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 command | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 command | aux |
| 10 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 means | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Monkeys | det |
| 12 | Winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Monkeys | amod |
| 13 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 command | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 carry | mark |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 command | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 gates | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gates | det |
| 19 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carry | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 City | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 City | det |
| 22 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 City | compound |
| 23 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gates | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 27 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shame | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 shame | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 shame | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 shame | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 shame | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 shame | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 shame | det |
| 35 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 deprive | mark |
| 37 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 shame | acl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 people | det |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 deprive | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 wonderful | case |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 wonderful | advmod |
| 42 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 people | acl:relcl |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 ruler | det |
| 44 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wonderful | nsubj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | command in a quote | shall | Glinda | the Winged Monkeys | of the Golden Cap | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | |||
| 3 | wing in a quote | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | Glinda not said here | you | the gates of the Emerald City | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to gate=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Glinda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | would | City | for a shame | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | deprive in a quote | to-infinitive | Glinda not said here | the people | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Source |
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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