The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 31
“To the Emerald City,” said Dorothy, “to see the Great Oz.”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: say, see · To what, where: Emerald City, Great Oz. · 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 (Dorothy), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 City | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 City | det |
| 4 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 City | compound |
| 5 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 City | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 City | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Oz. | det |
| 15 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Oz. | amod |
| 16 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | the Emerald City | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to city=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the Great Oz. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz.=Stimulus |
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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