The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 92

There was only one danger—that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it.

Who acts: one danger, joints, I · What happens: be, rust, keep, take, need · To what, where: one danger, cottage, care, oil

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 (one danger, joints, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 danger	nummod
5	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 rust	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 rust	mark
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 joints	nmod:poss
9	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rust	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 rust	aux
11	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 danger	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 can	det
17	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 can	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 oil	punct
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 kept	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 cottage	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cottage	nmod:poss
22	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kept	conj
25	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 oil	mark
27	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 oil	nmod:unmarked
29	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 needed	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 needed	nsubj
31	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 needed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one danger		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rust	would	my joints	one danger not said here			tree rules
3	keep	past	I		my cottage		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cottage=Location
4	take	past	I not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme oil=Destination
5	need	past	I	oil		whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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