The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 78
I myself can scarcely keep my eyes open, and the dog is asleep already.”
Who acts: I, dog · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: eyes
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, dog), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 I | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asleep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asleep | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asleep | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asleep | cop |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | parataxis |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 asleep | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | can | I | my eyes | open, scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the dog | asleep property | tree rules |
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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