The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 46
While I am gone the Scarecrow will rule over you.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, rule · To what, where: Scarecrow
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 (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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rule | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Scarecrow | det |
| 6 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rule | aux |
| 8 | rule | rule | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 rule | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | the Scarecrow | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scarecrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | future | over you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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