The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 34
“Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert,” replied Glinda.
Who acts: Silver Shoes, Glinda · What happens: carry, reply · To what, where: you, desert · 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 (Silver Shoes, Glinda), 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 | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Shoes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Shoes | compound |
| 4 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | aux |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 desert | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 desert | det |
| 10 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | future | Your Silver Shoes | you | the desert | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Glinda | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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