The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 165
I came to you to beg that you give me courage, so that in reality I may become the King of Beasts, as men call me.”
Who acts: I, you, men · What happens: come, beg, give, become, call · To what, where: you, courage, me, reality · 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 (I, you, men), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beg | mark |
| 6 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beg | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 become | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 reality | case |
| 16 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 become | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 become | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 become | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Beasts | case |
| 23 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 King | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 call | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 call | mark |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 call | nsubj |
| 27 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 call | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 call | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | present | you | courage | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient courage=Theme | |||
| 4 | become | may | I | in reality result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in reality=Result | ||||
| 5 | call | present | men | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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