The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 93
If Oz will not give you any brains you will be no worse off than you are now.”
Who acts: Oz, brains, you · What happens: not give, not be, be · To what, where: worse, you
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, brains, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 2 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 brains | det |
| 8 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 worse | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 worse | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 worse | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 worse | cop |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 worse | advmod |
| 13 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 give | iobj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 worse | compound:prt |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 are | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 worse | advcl |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 are | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | future | Oz | worse | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bad=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | future | any brains | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does | present | you | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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