The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 31
“What shall we do now?” asked the Tin Woodman, as the Lion lay down on the grass to let the sun dry him.
Who acts: we, Lion, sun · What happens: do, ask, lie down, let, dry · To what, where: Tin Woodman, grass, stream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Lion, sun), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Woodman | det |
| 11 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Woodman | compound |
| 12 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 lay | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lion | det |
| 16 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 grass | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grass | det |
| 21 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 let | mark |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lay | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sun | det |
| 25 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dry | nsubj |
| 26 | dry | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dry | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | we | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Tin Woodman | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lie down | past | the Lion | the grass | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | |||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dry | present | the sun | stream | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
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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