The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 93
However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me.
Who acts: I, danger, you · What happens: come, forget, not do, catch, think, rust · To what, where: this, rainstorm, joints, I, woods, me
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 (I, danger, you), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 came | expl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 forgot | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forgot | xcomp |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caught | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 caught | aux:pass |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rainstorm | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rainstorm | det |
| 20 | rainstorm | rainstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 thought | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 danger | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 danger | det |
| 27 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | obl |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 joints | nmod:poss |
| 29 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rusted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 rusted | aux |
| 31 | rusted | rust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 danger | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 left | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 left | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 left | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 left | aux:pass |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 thought | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 stand | mark |
| 38 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 left | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 woods | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 woods | det |
| 41 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 stand | obl |
| 42 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 44 came | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 came | nsubj |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 stand | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 help | mark |
| 46 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 came | xcomp |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 help | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | day | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | forget | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not do | to-infinitive | I not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | catch | gerund · passive | a rainstorm | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | I | of the danger | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rust | past · perfect · passive | the danger not said here | my joints | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | leave | past · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | stand | to-infinitive | I not said here | the woods | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 9 | come | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | 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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