The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 35

Now, if you will oil the joints of my legs, I shall be all right once more.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: oil, be

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, I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 right	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 oil	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 oil	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 oil	aux
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 right	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 joints	det
8	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 oil	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 joints	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 oil	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 right	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 right	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 right	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 right	advmod
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 right	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oil a condition, not said to happen	future	you						tree rules
2	is	shall	I				now	all, right property	tree rules

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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