The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 53
It is better for people to keep away from Oz, unless they have business with him.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, keep away, have · To what, where: Oz, business
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 keep | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Oz | case |
| 10 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | conj |
| 15 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 business | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep away | to-infinitive | people | Oz | away property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from oz=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | people | business | with Oz | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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