The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 8

“My greatest wish now,” she added, “is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it.”

Who acts: cyclone, Aunt Em, something, that, crops, Uncle Henry · What happens: add, be, think, happen, make, put · To what, where: greatest wish, cyclone, mourning · 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 (cyclone, Aunt Em, something, that), 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	_	4 wish	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wish	nmod:poss
3	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 wish	amod
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 added	obl
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wish	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 added	nsubj
9	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 get	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 added	ccomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Kansas	case
17	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 back	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 think	mark
20	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Em	compound
21	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 think	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 think	aux
23	surely	surely	ADV	_	24 think	advmod
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 get	conj
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 happened	nsubj
26	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 something	amod
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 happened	aux
28	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 think	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 happened	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 make	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 make	cc
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 make	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 make	aux
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 get	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	xcomp
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 mourning	case
39	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 better	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 better	cc
42	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	46 better	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 crops	det
44	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 better	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 better	cop
46	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 added	parataxis
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 year	det
48	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 better	obl:unmarked
49	than	than	ADP	_	52 last	case
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 last	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 last	cop
52	last	last	ADV	_	46 better	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sure	punct
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 sure	nsubj
55	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 sure	cop
56	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 added	parataxis
57	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Henry	compound
58	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 afford	nsubj
59	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 afford	aux
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 afford	advmod
61	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 sure	ccomp
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 afford	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 added	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	cyclone	My greatest wish					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present						get property	tree rules
3	think speech: other in a quote	future	Aunt Em					surely property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	happen in a quote	present · perfect	something		cyclone				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make in a quote	future	that	cyclone					tree rules
6	put in a quote	infinitive	cyclone not said here			mourning			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on mourning=Destination
7	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the crops				year	good property	tree rules
8	is in a quote	past	crops = crop					last property	tree rules
9	is in a quote	present	cyclone					sure property	tree rules
10	not afford in a quote	can	Uncle Henry	mourning					tree rules
11	wish in a quote		My						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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