The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 32
“Now, if you will help me sew the silk together, we will begin to work on our balloon.”
Who acts: you, air, we · What happens: help, sew, begin, work · To what, where: air, silk
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, air, we), 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 | _ | 16 begin | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 begin | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 begin | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 silk | det |
| 11 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sew | obj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 sew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 begin | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 begin | aux |
| 16 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 work | mark |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 begin | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 balloon | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 balloon | nmod:poss |
| 21 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 begin | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | air | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sew in a quote | infinitive | air not said here | the silk | together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Product | |||
| 3 | begin in a quote | future | we | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | on our balloon | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on balloon=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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