The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 36
We shall be glad to serve you in any way in our power, but we cannot cross the desert.
Who acts: We · What happens: be, serve, not cross · To what, where: you, way, desert
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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 serve | mark |
| 6 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 serve | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serve | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 power | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 power | nmod:poss |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cross | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 cross | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 cross | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 cross | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 cross | advmod |
| 19 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 desert | det |
| 21 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cross | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | We | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | We not said here | you | any way in our power | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in way=Location | |||
| 3 | not cross | can | we | the desert | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Patient |
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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