The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 79

But I should like to start as soon as possible.”

Who acts: I · What happens: like, start

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 like	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 start	mark
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 start	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 possible	mark
10	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soon	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	start not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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