The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 48
“So, if you will allow me to join your party, I will also go to the Emerald City and ask Oz to help me.”
Who acts: you, Dorothy · What happens: allow, join, go, ask, help · To what, where: Dorothy, party, Emerald City, Oz
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, Dorothy), 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 | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 So | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 allow | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 allow | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 allow | aux |
| 7 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 allow | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 join | mark |
| 10 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allow | xcomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 party | nmod:poss |
| 12 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 join | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 allow | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 City | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 City | det |
| 20 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 City | compound |
| 21 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ask | cc |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 24 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ask | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ask | xcomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Dorothy | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | join not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your party | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | Dorothy | the Emerald City | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | Dorothy not said here | Oz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | help not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | Dorothy | 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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