The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 67
“But you are so beautiful,” she continued, “that I am sure I could love you dearly.
Who acts: you, Dorothy · What happens: be, continue, love · To what, where: you · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 10 continued | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 beautiful | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 continued | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sure | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 continued | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 love | aux |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 love | obj |
| 21 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 19 love | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Dorothy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Dorothy | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | could | Dorothy | you | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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