The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 8

Thank you ever so much for saving my life.”

What happens: thank, save · To what, where: you, life

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: 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	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Thank	obj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Thank	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	1 Thank	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 saving	mark
7	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Thank	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saving	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Thank	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you		ever		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	save	gerund		my life					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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