The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 183
“I will go too,” declared the Scarecrow; “but I shall not be of much help to you, I am such a fool.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, Lion · What happens: go, declare, not be, be · To what, where: you, fool · 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 (Scarecrow, Lion), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 declared | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 declared | punct |
| 8 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Scarecrow | det |
| 10 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 help | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 help | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 help | case |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 help | amod |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fool | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 fool | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fool | cop |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 fool | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fool | det |
| 28 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | vocative |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the Scarecrow | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | shall | the Lion = lion | you | of much help | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | such fool | 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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