The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 82
“We came here to see the Great Oz,” said Dorothy.
Who acts: We, Dorothy · What happens: come, see, say · To what, where: 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 (We, 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Oz | det |
| 8 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Oz | amod |
| 9 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | We | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | the Great Oz | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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