The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 10
“We should like to keep you with us, but if it is your wish to return to Kansas, I hope you will find a way.”
Who acts: We, ruler, farewell, you · What happens: like, keep, be, return, hope, find · To what, where: you, wish, Kansas, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, ruler, farewell, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur 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 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 wish | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 wish | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wish | cop |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 return | mark |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Kansas | case |
| 20 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 return | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hope | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hope | nsubj |
| 23 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hope | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | you | with us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | ruler | your wish | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | Kansas | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kansas=Result | ||||
| 5 | hope in a quote | present | farewell | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find in a quote | future | you | a way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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