The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 141
“I’ll find a way to use them, never fear!”
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: find, use, not fear · To what, where: way, head
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 use | mark |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 way | acl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 use | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fear | punct |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 fear | advmod |
| 12 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | future | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | a way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use in a quote | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here | head | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not fear in a quote | infinitive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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