The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 99

Sit down, please, there are plenty of chairs; and I will tell you my story.”

Who acts: you, plenty, I · What happens: sit down, be, tell · To what, where: story, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, plenty, I), 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
4	please	please	INTJ	_	1 Sit	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 are	expl
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	parataxis
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 are	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 chairs	case
10	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plenty	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sit	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 story	nmod:poss
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	plenty of chairs			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	future	I	my story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic

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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