The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 35

“If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country.”

Who acts: you · What happens: know, go back, come · To what, where: you, first day

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 (you), 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 gone	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 known	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 known	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gone	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 power	nmod:poss
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 known	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Aunt	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Aunt	nmod:poss
15	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	obl
16	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Aunt	appos
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 first	advmod
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	obl:unmarked
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 day	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 country	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 country	det
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		you			tree rules
2	go back in a quote	could · perfect	you		day	to your Aunt result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to aunt=Result
3	come in a quote	past	you	the first day not said here		to this country	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme

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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