The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 31
“Is there anything we can do,” it asked, “to repay you for saving the life of our Queen?”
Who acts: we, it · What happens: do, be, repay, save · To what, where: you, 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 (we, it), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Is | nsubj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anything | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 repay | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 repay | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 repay | mark |
| 15 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 repay | obj |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 saving | mark |
| 18 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 repay | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 life | det |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saving | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Queen | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 life | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be speech: ask | present | it | ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | repay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | save in a quote | gerund | the life of our Queen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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