The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 38
“What can we do to save him?” asked Dorothy.
Who acts: we · What happens: do, save, ask · To what, where: country, Dorothy · 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), 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 | can | can | 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 | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 save | mark |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 save | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | country | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Dorothy | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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