The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 49

“Well, I’ll try,” said the Stork, “but if I find he is too heavy to carry I shall have to drop him in the river again.”

Who acts: Stork, road · What happens: try, say, find, be, carry, have · To what, where: road, river · 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 (Stork, road), 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	_	6 try	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Stork	det
11	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 find	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 have	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heavy	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heavy	cop
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 heavy	advmod
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 find	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 carry	mark
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 heavy	xcomp
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 drop	mark
28	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 have	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drop	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 river	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 river	det
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drop	obl
33	again	again	ADV	_	28 drop	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	future	the Stork = stork					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the Stork					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the Stork = stork					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	road				heavy property	tree rules
5	carry in a quote	to-infinitive	road not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	have in a quote	shall	the Stork = stork					tree rules
7	drop in a quote	to-infinitive	the Stork = stork not said here	road	the river	again		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in river=Destination

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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