The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 26
“Well,” said the woman, after thinking it over and taking another peep at the Lion, “if that is the case you may come in, and I will give you some supper and a place to sleep.”
Who acts: woman, that, case · What happens: say, think over, take, be, come in, give · To what, where: wider, peep, case, supper, you · 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, that, case), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinking | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 thinking | mark |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thinking | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 thinking | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taking | cc |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thinking | conj |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 peep | det |
| 16 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Lion | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lion | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 case | mark |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 case | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 case | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 case | det |
| 26 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 come | nsubj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 come | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 give | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 give | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 give | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | aux |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 come | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 give | iobj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 supper | det |
| 38 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 place | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 place | det |
| 41 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 supper | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 sleep | mark |
| 43 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 place | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think over speech: other | gerund | the woman not said here | wider | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the woman not said here | another peep | at the Lion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent peep=Theme at lion=Asset | |||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in in a quote | may | the case | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give in a quote | future | the woman = woman | some supper and a place | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient supper=Theme | |||
| 7 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | the woman = woman not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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