The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 47
“If he wasn’t so big and heavy I would get him for you,” remarked the Stork.
Who acts: road, Stork · What happens: not be, be, get, remark · To what, where: road · 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 (road, Stork), 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 | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 big | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 big | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 big | cop |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 big | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 big | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heavy | cc |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 big | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 18 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 get | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Stork | det |
| 20 | Stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remarked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | road | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | road not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | get in a quote | would | the Stork = stork | road | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | participle | the Stork | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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