The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 162
There is only one thing I ask in return for my help—such as it is.
Who acts: one thing, I, help, my · What happens: be, ask, help · To what, where: return
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 (one thing, I, help, my), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 return | case |
| 9 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 help | nmod:poss |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 such | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 help | amod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 such | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 such | cop |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | I | return | for my help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | present | help | such property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | my | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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