The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 22

I’ve been groaning for more than a year, and no one has ever heard me before or come to help me.”

Who acts: I, one · What happens: groan, hear, come, help · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 groaning	nsubj
2	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 groaning	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 groaning	aux
4	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 year	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 groaning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 groaning	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 heard	obj
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 heard	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 groaning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	groan	present · perfect · progressive	I			year	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present · perfect	no one	me		ever	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	come	infinitive	no one not said here				tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	no one not said here		me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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