The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 19
Let us stop at the next house and talk to the people.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, stop, talk · To what, where: us, next house
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 talk | cc |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stop | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talk | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | us not said here | the next house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | ||||
| 3 | talk | infinitive | us not said here | to the people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-Agent |
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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