The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 48

“He isn’t heavy a bit,” said Dorothy eagerly, “for he is stuffed with straw; and if you will bring him back to us, we shall thank you ever and ever so much.”

Who acts: road, Dorothy, you, we · What happens: not be, say, stuff, bring back, thank · To what, where: road, us, you · 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, Dorothy, you, we), 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 heavy	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	11 Dorothy	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stuffed	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 stuffed	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 stuffed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stuffed	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stuffed	aux:pass
18	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Dorothy	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 straw	case
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stuffed	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bring	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bring	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 bring	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 bring	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bring	aux
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bring	obj
28	back	back	ADV	_	26 bring	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bring	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thank	punct
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 thank	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 thank	aux
34	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 thank	obj
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 thank	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ever	cc
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 ever	conj
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADV	_	34 thank	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 thank	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	road				a bit obl:unmarked; heavy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stuff in a quote	present · passive		road			with straw	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with straw=Theme
4	bring back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	road	us			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to we=Destination
5	thank speech: thank in a quote	shall	we		you	ever		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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