The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 53
“I was afraid I should have to stay in the river forever,” he said, “but the kind Stork saved me, and if I ever get any brains I shall find the Stork again and do her some kindness in return.”
Who acts: road, kind Stork · What happens: be, have, stay, say, save, get · To what, where: river, road, brains, Stork, kindness, return · 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, kind 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 | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 13 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 9 stay | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saved | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 saved | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 saved | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Stork | det |
| 22 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Stork | amod |
| 23 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 saved | nsubj |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 saved | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 find | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 find | cc |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 get | nsubj |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 get | advmod |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 find | advcl |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 brains | det |
| 33 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 get | obj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 find | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 find | aux |
| 36 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Stork | det |
| 38 | Stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 find | obj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 find | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 do | cc |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 36 find | conj |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 43 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 kindness | det |
| 44 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 return | case |
| 46 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | road | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | should | road | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | to-infinitive | road not said here | the river | forever property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | road | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | save in a quote | past | the kind Stork | road | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | road | any brains | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | find in a quote | shall | road | the Stork | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Topic | |||
| 8 | do in a quote | infinitive | road not said here | Stork's kindness | return | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Eventuality |
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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