The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 72
“You will be very welcome,” answered Dorothy, “for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts.
Who acts: You, Dorothy · What happens: be, answer, help, keep away · To what, where: other wild beasts · 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 (You, Dorothy), 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 | _ | 6 welcome | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 welcome | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 welcome | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 welcome | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 welcome | advmod |
| 6 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 welcome | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 welcome | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADP | _ | 18 keep | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beasts | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beasts | amod |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beasts | amod |
| 23 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | You | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | future | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep away in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the other wild beasts | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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