The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 38
If you will help us to save him I promise that he shall treat you all with kindness.”
Who acts: you, us, I, Lion · What happens: help, save, promise, treat · To what, where: us, Lion, you · 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, us, I, Lion), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 help | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promise | advcl |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 save | mark |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 save | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 promise | nsubj |
| 10 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 treat | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 treat | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 treat | aux |
| 14 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promise | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 treat | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 kindness | case |
| 18 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 treat | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 promise | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help a condition, not said to happen | future | you | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | us not said here | Lion | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | present | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | treat | shall | Lion | you | with kindness | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with kindness=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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