The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 37
“I might have stood there always if you had not come along,” he said; “so you have certainly saved my life.
Who acts: Scarecrow, you · What happens: stand, not come along, say, save · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Scarecrow, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:359): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stood | aux |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 stood | advmod |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 saved | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 saved | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 saved | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 saved | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 saved | aux |
| 23 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 24 saved | advmod |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | parataxis |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saved | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | might · perfect | Scarecrow | there | always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not come along a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | you | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | save in a quote | present · perfect | you | my life | certainly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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