The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 74

“If you see any house, or any place where we can pass the night,” she said, “you must tell me; for it is very uncomfortable walking in the dark.”

Who acts: you, we, light, hold · What happens: see, pass, say, tell, be · To what, where: house, light, dark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, light, hold), 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	_	20 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 see	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 place	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 place	cc
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	conj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 pass	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 pass	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pass	aux
14	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 place	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 walking	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	33 walking	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 walking	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 walking	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 uncomfortable	advmod
32	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 walking	amod
33	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 dark	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dark	det
36	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 walking	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	any house					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
2	pass in a quote	can	we				night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	light						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	you		light				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	hold			the dark		for uncomfortable walking	tree rules

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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