The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 46
“Now,” said the Scarecrow to the Tin Woodman, “you must go to those trees by the riverside and make a truck that will carry the Lion.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, you, truck · What happens: say, go, make, carry · To what, where: trees, truck, Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Scarecrow, you, truck), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Woodman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Woodman | det |
| 10 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Woodman | compound |
| 11 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Scarecrow | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 trees | det |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 riverside | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 riverside | det |
| 22 | riverside | riverside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 truck | det |
| 26 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 carry | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | aux |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 truck | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Lion | det |
| 31 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 carry | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | must | you | that trees | by the riverside | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a truck | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset truck=Product | ||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | future | a truck | the Lion | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |
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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