The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 160

“Give me two or three days to consider the matter and I’ll try to find a way to carry you over the desert.

Who acts: you, little man · What happens: give, consider, try, find, carry · To what, where: little man, matter, way, you, desert

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 (you, little man), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 three	cc
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 two	conj
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Give	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 consider	mark
9	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 matter	det
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 consider	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 try	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 try	nsubj
14	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 try	aux
15	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 try	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 carry	mark
21	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 way	acl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 carry	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 desert	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 desert	det
25	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carry	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the little man = man		day	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	consider in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the matter				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute
3	try in a quote	future	the little man = man					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the little man = man not said here	a way				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
5	carry in a quote	to-infinitive	the little man = man not said here	you		the desert		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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