The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 68

“If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance.

Who acts: you, Queen, we, your · What happens: need, say, come out, call, hear, come · To what, where: us, field, you, assistance · 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, we, your), 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 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 need	mark
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 need	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 need	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 field	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 field	det
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 call	cc
20	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hear	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hear	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 hear	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hear	aux
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 hear	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hear	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 assistance	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 assistance	nmod:poss
31	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	us		ever; again		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot we=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Queen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come out in a quote	infinitive			the field		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	call in a quote	infinitive						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear in a quote	shall	we	you				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
6	come in a quote	infinitive	we not said here		your assistance			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial_Location
7	assist in a quote		your					nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=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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