The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 12
“We must protect him ourselves if he is in danger,” replied the Tin Woodman.
Who acts: We, Toto, Tin Woodman · What happens: protect, be, reply · To what, where: Toto, danger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Toto, Tin Woodman), 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 | _ | 4 protect | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 protect | aux |
| 4 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 protect | obj |
| 6 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 protect | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 danger | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 danger | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 danger | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 danger | case |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 protect | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 protect | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 protect | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Woodman | det |
| 16 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Woodman | compound |
| 17 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect in a quote | must | We | Toto | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Toto | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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