The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 99
“If you will come with me I’ll ask Oz to do all he can for you.”
Who acts: you, Scarecrow · What happens: come, ask, do · To what, where: Oz, all
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, Scarecrow), 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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | parataxis |
| 11 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | future | you | with the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | Oz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here | all | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
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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