The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 147
“Because I ask it, and you alone can grant my request,” answered the Woodman.
Who acts: Woodman, you, my · What happens: ask, grant, answer, request · To what, where: heart, request · 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 (Woodman, you, my), 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 | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 ask | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 answered | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grant | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 grant | nsubj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 grant | advmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 grant | aux |
| 11 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 request | nmod:poss |
| 13 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grant | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Woodman | det |
| 18 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the Woodman = woodman | heart | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | can | you | my request | alone property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Woodman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | request in a quote | my | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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