The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 69
But stand close behind me, and I will fight them as long as I am alive.”
Who acts: I · What happens: stand, fight, be · To what, where: arms
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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 stand | cc |
| 2 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 stand | advmod |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 stand | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fight | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fight | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fight | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fight | aux |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stand | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fight | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fight | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 alive | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 alive | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 alive | cop |
| 17 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 long | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | behind me; close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind i=Location | |||||
| 2 | fight | future | I | arms = arm | long property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | alive property | tree rules |
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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