The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 14
“Therefore you have done a great deed, as well as a brave one, in saving my life,” added the Queen.
Who acts: you, Queen · What happens: do, save, add · To what, where: great deed, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Queen), 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 | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 added | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 deed | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deed | amod |
| 8 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 one | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deed | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saving | punct |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 saving | mark |
| 18 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 done | advcl |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saving | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 23 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 added | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | a great deed | therefore property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | save in a quote | gerund | you not said here | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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