The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 62

“It seems, in spite of dangers, that the best thing Dorothy can do is to travel to the Land of the South and ask Glinda to help her.

Who acts: It, Dorothy, best thing · What happens: seem, do, be, ask, help, spite · To what, where: best thing, Glinda, Dorothy, dangers

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 (It, Dorothy, best thing), 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	_	3 seems	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spite	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spite	case
6	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dangers	case
8	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spite	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 travel	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 travel	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 travel	nsubj
14	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 do	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thing	acl:relcl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 travel	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 travel	mark
19	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seems	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 Land	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Land	det
22	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 travel	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 South	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 South	det
25	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Land	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ask	cc
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 travel	conj
28	Glinda	Glinda	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ask	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 help	mark
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ask	xcomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 help	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem in a quote	present	It			in spite of dangers	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in spite=Attribute
2	do in a quote	can	Dorothy	the best thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	present	the best thing			to the Land of the South; travel property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	the best thing not said here		Glinda		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent glinda=Recipient clause=Topic
5	help not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here		Dorothy		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
6	spite in a quote			dangers			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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