The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 14
“It seems to me I can scarcely wait till I get to Oz, and you must admit this is a very long journey.”
Who acts: It, I, you, this · What happens: seem, wait, get, admit, be · To what, where: me, Oz, long journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wait | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | aux |
| 8 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 9 wait | advmod |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seems | parataxis |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Oz | case |
| 14 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 admit | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 admit | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 admit | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 admit | aux |
| 19 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wait | conj |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 journey | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 journey | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 journey | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 journey | amod |
| 25 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 admit | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | It | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | can | I | scarcely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | I | Oz | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to oz=Result | ||||
| 4 | admit speech: other in a quote | must | you | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | this | a long journey | 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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