The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 68
Besides, Dorothy will need someone to protect her.”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: need, protect · To what, where: someone, Dorothy
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 (Dorothy), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 need | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 need | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 need | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 protect | mark |
| 8 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 someone | acl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 protect | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | future | Dorothy | someone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | someone not said here | Dorothy | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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