The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 56
But I must go now, for my babies are waiting in the nest for me.
Who acts: I, babies · What happens: go, wait · To what, where: nest
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 (I, babies), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waiting | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 waiting | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 babies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 waiting | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 waiting | aux |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 nest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waiting | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 waiting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | I | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | present · progressive | my babies | the nest | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
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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