The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 92

“I cannot tell,” she returned, “but you may come with me, if you like.

Who acts: Oz, Dorothy, you · What happens: not tell, return, come, like · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz, Dorothy, 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 returned	nsubj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 like	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
21	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	Oz		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	return	past	Dorothy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come in a quote	may	you	with Oz	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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