The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 29
“My third command to the Winged Monkeys,” said Glinda, “shall be to carry you to your forest.
Who acts: third command, My · What happens: say, be, command · 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 (third command, My), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 command | nmod:poss |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 command | amod |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Monkeys | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Monkeys | det |
| 7 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Monkeys | compound |
| 8 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 command | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 command | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 command | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 carry | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 forest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carry | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My third command to the Winged Monkeys | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | My third command to the Winged Monkeys not said here | to your forest; carry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | command in a quote | My | to the Winged Monkeys | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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