The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 21
A woman opened it just far enough to look out, and said, “What do you want, child, and why is that great Lion with you?”
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: open, look out, say, want, be · To what, where: farmhouse, child, great Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | obj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 enough | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 enough | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enough | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 look | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 want | obj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 want | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 child | punct |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 want | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lion | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Lion | cc |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 Lion | advmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Lion | cop |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 Lion | mark |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Lion | amod |
| 28 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 Lion | nmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lion | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | a woman | farmhouse | enough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look out | to-infinitive | a woman not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | a woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | child | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme child=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | great Lion | with you | tree rules |
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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