The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 26
You will find an oil-can on a shelf in my cottage.”
Who acts: You · What happens: find · To what, where: shelf, cottage
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shelf | det |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shelf | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 oil | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 shelf | aux |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shelf | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shelf | det |
| 10 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cottage | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shelf | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | You | a shelf | my cottage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelf=Topic |
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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