The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 19
When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, do, not be, tell, ask, help · To what, where: Oz, story, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Oz | case |
| 5 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | xcomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 afraid | cop |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 story | nmod:poss |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ask | cc |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ask | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | Oz | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | infinitive | of Oz; afraid property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | your story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | Oz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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