The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 18
“If Dorothy would only be contented to live in the Emerald City,” continued the Scarecrow, “we might all be happy together.”
Who acts: we · What happens: content, live, continue, be · To what, where: Dorothy, Emerald City, Scarecrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 continued | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 contented | mark |
| 3 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 contented | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 contented | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 contented | aux:pass |
| 7 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 continued | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 contented | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 City | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 City | det |
| 12 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 City | compound |
| 13 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 contented | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 contented | punct |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Scarecrow | det |
| 18 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 continued | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happy | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 happy | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 happy | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 happy | aux |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 happy | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 happy | cop |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 continued | parataxis |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 happy | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would · passive | Dorothy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | the Emerald City | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | the Scarecrow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | might | we | all, happy, together property | tree rules |
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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