The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 15
“No, I cannot do that,” she replied, “but I will give you my kiss, and no one will dare injure a person who has been kissed by the Witch of the North.”
Who acts: girl, one, Witch, my · What happens: not do, reply, give, dare, injure, kiss · To what, where: that, kiss, you, person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, one, Witch, 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dare | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dare | cc |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dare | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 dare | aux |
| 27 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 give | parataxis |
| 28 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 dare | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 person | det |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 injure | obj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 kissed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 kissed | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 kissed | aux:pass |
| 34 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 person | acl:relcl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 Witch | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Witch | det |
| 37 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kissed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 North | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 North | det |
| 40 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Witch | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | can | girl | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | girl | my kiss | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kiss=Theme | |||
| 4 | dare in a quote | future | no one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | injure in a quote | infinitive | no one not said here | a person | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | kiss in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Witch of the North | a person | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | kiss in a quote | my | nom kiss «act transitive»: 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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