The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 23

I am fond of the Winkies, and if I could get back again to the Country of the West, I should like nothing better than to rule over them forever.”

Who acts: I · What happens: be, get back, like, rule · To what, where: nothing

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fond	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fond	cop
3	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Winkies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Winkies	det
6	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 fond	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 like	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 like	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	14 again	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Country	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Country	det
17	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 West	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 West	det
20	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Country	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fond	parataxis
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 like	obj
26	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 like	advmod
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 rule	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rule	mark
29	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 like	advcl
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rule	obl
32	forever	forever	ADV	_	29 rule	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fond	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			of the Winkies; fond property	tree rules
2	get back a condition, not said to happen	could	I		again	to the Country of the West result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result
3	like	should	I	nothing		well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
4	rule	to-infinitive	I not said here			over Winkies = winky; forever property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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