The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 76
If you will please take away the pole I shall be greatly obliged to you.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take away, oblige · To what, where: pole, I, you
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 take | discourse |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pole | det |
| 8 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 obliged | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 obliged | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 13 obliged | advmod |
| 13 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 take | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 obliged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | future | you | the pole | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme | ||||
| 2 | oblige | shall · passive | I | you | greatly property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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