The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 44
“I know it,” returned Dorothy, “but we have lost the Scarecrow, and are wondering how we shall get him again.”
Who acts: road, we · What happens: know, return, lose, wonder, get · To what, where: neck, Dorothy, Scarecrow, road · 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 (road, 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | parataxis |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 lost | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 Dorothy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Scarecrow | det |
| 16 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wondering | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wondering | cc |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wondering | aux |
| 20 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 returned | advcl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 get | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wondering | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the road = road | neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Dorothy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | present · perfect | we | the Scarecrow | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · progressive | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | get in a quote | shall | we | road | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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