The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 72
She, on her part, promised to marry me as soon as I could earn enough money to build a better house for her; so I set to work harder than ever.
Who acts: part, I · What happens: promise, marry, earn, build, set, work · To what, where: me, enough money, better house
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 (part, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 part | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 part | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 part | nmod:poss |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 promised | punct |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 marry | mark |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 marry | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 earn | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 earn | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 earn | aux |
| 16 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 soon | advcl |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 money | amod |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 earn | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 build | mark |
| 20 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 earn | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 house | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 build | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 build | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 set | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 work | mark |
| 31 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 set | xcomp |
| 32 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 work | advmod |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 ever | case |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 harder | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | girl's part not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl's part not said here | me | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 3 | earn | could | I | enough money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 4 | build | to-infinitive | I not said here | a better house | for girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Product for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | set | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | work | to-infinitive | I not said here | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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