The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 82
We will bring the little girl with us, but if you should fall asleep you are too big to be carried.”
Who acts: We, you · What happens: bring, fall, be, carry · To what, where: little girl
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 (We, you), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fall | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fall | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 fall | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fall | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fall | aux |
| 14 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fall | xcomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 big | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 big | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 big | advmod |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 asleep | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 carried | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 carried | aux:pass |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 big | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | We | the little girl | with us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | |||
| 2 | fall a condition, not said to happen | should | you | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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