The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 82

“The Tin Woodman must build us a raft, so we can float to the other side.”

Who acts: Tin Woodman, we · What happens: build, float · To what, where: raft, us, other side

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 (Tin Woodman, we), 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 build	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woodman	det
3	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Woodman	compound
4	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 build	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 build	aux
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 build	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 raft	det
9	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 build	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 float	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 float	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 float	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 float	aux
14	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 build	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 side	amod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 float	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 build	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build in a quote	must	the Tin Woodman	a raft	us				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary raft=Product
2	float in a quote	can	we			the other side			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination

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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