The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 5
“If our friends, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, were only with us,” said the Lion, “I should be quite happy.”
Who acts: friends · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends), 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 | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 friends | mark |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Scarecrow | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friends | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Tin | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tin | det |
| 10 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friends | conj |
| 11 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tin | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 us | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 us | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 friends | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lion | det |
| 21 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happy | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 happy | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 happy | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 happy | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 happy | cop |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 happy | advmod |
| 28 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Lion | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | with us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | our friends and the Scarecrow and the Tin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should | our friends and the Scarecrow and the Tin = friend | happy property | 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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