The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 50
“Because,” answered the Princess, also stopping, a safe distance away, “if I run I may fall down and break myself.”
Who acts: Princess · What happens: answer, stop, run, fall down, break · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 answered | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Because | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopping | punct |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 stopping | advmod |
| 10 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Princess | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 distance | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 distance | det |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 distance | amod |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Princess | appos |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 distance | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fall | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fall | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 run | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 run | nsubj |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fall | advcl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fall | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fall | aux |
| 23 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 fall | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 break | cc |
| 26 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fall | conj |
| 27 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 break | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 fall | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall down in a quote | may | the Princess = princess | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break in a quote | infinitive | the Princess = princess not said here | the Princess = princess | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=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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