The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 120
“I thought you asked Dorothy to kill the Witch,” said the Scarecrow, in surprise.
Who acts: I, you, Scarecrow · What happens: think, ask, kill, say · To what, where: Dorothy, Witch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Scarecrow), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Witch | det |
| 10 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Scarecrow | det |
| 15 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surprise | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 surprise | case |
| 18 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Scarecrow | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | you | Dorothy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Witch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow and surprise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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