The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 54
“Permit me to introduce to you her Majesty, the Queen.”
Who acts: you · What happens: permit, introduce · To what, where: Scarecrow, Majesty, you
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), 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 | _ | 2 Permit | punct |
| 2 | Permit | permit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Permit | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 introduce | mark |
| 5 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Permit | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 introduce | obl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 introduce | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Queen | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Majesty | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Permit | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Scarecrow | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | introduce not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Dorothy's Majesty and the Queen | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Patient |
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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