The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 84

“It has been many years since anyone asked me to see Oz,” he said, shaking his head in perplexity.

Who acts: answer, man · What happens: be, ask, see, say, shake · To what, where: many years, man, Oz, head, perplexity · 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 (answer, man), 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	_	9 asked	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 years	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 years	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 years	cop
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 years	amod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asked	obl:unmarked
7	since	since	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 years	nmod
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
13	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shaking	punct
19	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shaking	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 perplexity	case
23	perplexity	perplexity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shaking	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present · perfect	answer	many years			since anyone	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	man not said here		man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	Oz				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	shake	gerund	man not said here	man's head		perplexity		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme in perplexity=Trajectory

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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