The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 23
“Is he tame?” asked the woman, opening the door a little wider.
Who acts: Lion, woman · What happens: be, ask, open · To what, where: door · 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 (Lion, woman), 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 | _ | 4 tame | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tame | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tame | nsubj |
| 4 | tame | tame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tame | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tame | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opening | punct |
| 11 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opening | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wider | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wider | amod |
| 16 | wider | wider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opening | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Lion | tame property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open | gerund | the woman not said here | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent door=Theme wider=Destination |
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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