The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 26
I think I can swim to the shore and pull the raft after me, if you will only hold fast to the tip of my tail.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, swim, pull, hold · To what, where: shore, raft · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 swim | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 swim | aux |
| 5 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swim | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pull | cc |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 raft | det |
| 12 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pull | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hold | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 hold | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 hold | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hold | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 hold | advmod |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | parataxis |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 hold | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 tip | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tip | det |
| 24 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tail | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tail | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tip | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swim | can | I | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pull | present | I not said here | the raft | after me | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raft=Theme | |||
| 4 | hold a condition, not said to happen | future | you | to the tip of my tail; fast property | 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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