The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 30
“I will,” declared the Scarecrow, “for, if you found that you could not jump over the gulf, Dorothy would be killed, or the Tin Woodman badly dented on the rocks below.
Who acts: Scarecrow, you, Tin Woodman · What happens: declare, find, not jump, kill, dent · To what, where: gulf, Dorothy, rocks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, you, 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 | _ | 6 declared | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 will | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 declared | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Scarecrow | det |
| 8 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 for | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 for | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 declared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 declared | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 jump | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 jump | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 jump | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 jump | advmod |
| 20 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 found | ccomp |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 gulf | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gulf | det |
| 23 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jump | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 killed | punct |
| 25 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 killed | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 killed | aux:pass |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 jump | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dented | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 dented | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Woodman | det |
| 32 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Woodman | compound |
| 33 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 dented | nsubj |
| 34 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 dented | advmod |
| 35 | dented | dent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 killed | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 rocks | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 rocks | det |
| 38 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dented | obl |
| 39 | below | below | ADV | _ | 38 rocks | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | future | the Scarecrow | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not jump in a quote | could | you | the gulf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over gulf=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | would · passive | Dorothy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dent in a quote | participle | the Tin Woodman | the rocks | badly property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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