The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 42

“I am Dorothy,” answered the girl, “and these are my friends, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion; and we are going to the Emerald City.”

Who acts: Dorothy, we · What happens: be, answer, go · To what, where: Dorothy, girl, friends, Emerald City · 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 (Dorothy, 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	_	4 Dorothy	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 Dorothy	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Dorothy	cop
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Dorothy	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Dorothy	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 friends	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 friends	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 friends	cc
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 friends	det
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 friends	cop
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 answered	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Woodman	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Woodman	det
19	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Woodman	compound
20	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 friends	appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Lion	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Lion	det
23	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Lion	compound
24	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Woodman	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 going	cc
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 going	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 answered	ccomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 City	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 City	det
32	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 City	compound
33	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 going	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Dorothy	Dorothy			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Dorothy		the girl		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	Dorothy not said here	my friends			tree rules
4	go in a quote	present · progressive	we			the Emerald City	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location

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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