The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 84
“I am anxious to get back to my aunt and uncle, for I am sure they will worry about me.
Who acts: old, Munchkins · What happens: be, get back, worry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old, Munchkins), 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 anxious | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 anxious | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 anxious | cop |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anxious | advcl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 aunt | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 10 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 uncle | cc |
| 12 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 aunt | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sure | case |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | advcl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worry | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 worry | aux |
| 20 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 worry | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | old | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get back in a quote | to-infinitive | old not said here | to my aunt and uncle result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to aunt=Result | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | old | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | worry in a quote | future | Munchkins = munchkin | about old | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about i=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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