The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 14

“Step inside,” answered the soldier, “and I will carry your message to him.”

Who acts: soldier · What happens: answer, carry · To what, where: message, soldier · 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 (soldier), 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	_	2 Step	punct
2	Step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	ccomp
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 Step	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Step	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Step	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carry	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 carry	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	ccomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 message	nmod:poss
16	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the soldier						tree rules
2	carry in a quote	future	the soldier = soldier	your message	soldier				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to he=Destination

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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