The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 45
But the Scarecrow said, “This is my battle, so lie down beside me and you will not be harmed.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, This · What happens: say, be, lie down, not harm · To what, where: battle, you · 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 (Scarecrow, This), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 battle | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 battle | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 battle | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 battle | cop |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 battle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lie | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 lie | advmod |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 lie | compound:prt |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lie | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 harmed | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 harmed | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 harmed | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 harmed | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 harmed | aux:pass |
| 22 | harmed | harm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lie | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | This | my battle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie down in a quote | infinitive | beside the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location | |||||
| 4 | not harm in a quote | future · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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