The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 55
“I always like to help anyone in trouble.
Who acts: Stork · What happens: like, help · To what, where: anyone, trouble
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), 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 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anyone | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | present | the Stork = stork | always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Stork = stork not said here | anyone | trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary |
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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