The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 145
I pray you to give me a heart that I may be as other men are.”
Who acts: I · What happens: pray, give, be · To what, where: you, heart, me
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 pray | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pray | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 are | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 are | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 men | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 men | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 I | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heart | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | a heart | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient heart=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | may | as other men | tree rules |
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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