The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 81
When he saw Dorothy and her companions the man asked, “What do you wish in the Emerald City?”
Who acts: gate, man, you · What happens: see, ask, wish · To what, where: Dorothy, Emerald City · 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 (gate, man, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 companions | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Dorothy | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 wish | obj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wish | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 City | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 City | det |
| 19 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 City | compound |
| 20 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wish | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | gate | Dorothy and wall's companions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dorothy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | you | the Emerald City | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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