The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 28
If I could only get back to this forest, I would pass my life very happily there.”
Who acts: I · What happens: get back, pass · To what, where: life
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pass | advcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pass | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pass | aux |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pass | obj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 happily | advmod |
| 17 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 18 there | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 pass | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pass | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back a condition, not said to happen | could | I | to this forest result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result | ||||
| 2 | pass | would | I | my life | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Trajectory |
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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