The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 17
How did you manage to escape the great Wildcat?”
Who acts: you · What happens: manage, escape · To what, where: great Wildcat
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 manage | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 manage | nsubj |
| 4 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 escape | mark |
| 6 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 manage | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wildcat | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Wildcat | amod |
| 9 | Wildcat | Wildcat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 escape | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past · do-support | you | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | you not said here | the great Wildcat | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wildcat=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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