The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 5

I should like to cry a little because Oz is gone, if you will kindly wipe away my tears, so that I shall not rust.”

Who acts: I, Oz, you · What happens: like, cry, be, wipe away, not rust · To what, where: little, tears

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 (I, Oz, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cry	mark
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	obl:unmarked
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
9	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wipe	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 wipe	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wipe	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wipe	aux
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 wipe	advmod
17	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gone	parataxis
18	away	away	ADP	_	17 wipe	compound:prt
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tears	nmod:poss
20	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wipe	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rust	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 rust	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 rust	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 rust	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 rust	advmod
27	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wipe	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	cry speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a little		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Oz		gone property	tree rules
4	wipe away a condition, not said to happen	future	you	my tears	kindly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
5	not rust	shall	I			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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