The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 117
“Because you are wise and powerful, and no one else can help me,” answered the Scarecrow.
Who acts: you, one, Scarecrow · What happens: be, help, answer · To what, where: Scarecrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, Scarecrow), 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 | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 wise | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wise | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wise | cop |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 powerful | cc |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wise | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 help | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | nsubj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wise | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Scarecrow | det |
| 20 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | help in a quote | can | no one | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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