The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 142
“Who are you, and why do you seek me?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: you, Oz
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seek | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seek | cc |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 seek | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seek | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seek | nsubj |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 you | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seek | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 seek | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | present · do-support | you | Oz | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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