The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 30
“This is my fight,” said the Woodman, “so get behind me and I will meet them as they come.”
Who acts: This, Woodman · What happens: be, say, get, meet, come · To what, where: fight, Woodman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Woodman), 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 fight | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woodman | det |
| 10 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 meet | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 meet | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 meet | aux |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 meet | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 meet | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | my fight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | behind the Woodman = woodman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | future | the Woodman = woodman | Woodman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present | Woodman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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