The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 5
“I certainly shall if I am able,” the Scarecrow replied; “but I must help Dorothy to get home, first.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy · What happens: be, reply, help, get · To what, where: Dorothy · 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 (Scarecrow, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shall | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 shall | advmod |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 able | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 able | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Scarecrow | det |
| 12 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 20 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | xcomp |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 first | punct |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 get | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | shall | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | must | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | Dorothy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | first, home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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