The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 56
Indeed he was obliged to call to her to help him up again.
What happens: oblige, call, help up · To what, where: Scarecrow, Dorothy · 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: 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 obliged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 call | mark |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 call | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 help | compound:prt |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 help | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Scarecrow | indeed property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | Dorothy | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | help up | to-infinitive | Scarecrow | again | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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