The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 4
“If you wish,” said the Lion, “I will go into the forest and kill a deer for you.
Who acts: you, Lion · What happens: wish, say, go, kill · To what, where: forest, deer · 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 (you, Lion), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kill | cc |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 deer | det |
| 21 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kill | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | infinitive | the Lion = lion not said here | a deer | for you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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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