The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 150
“Help Dorothy to kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” replied the Beast.
Who acts: Dorothy, Beast · What happens: help, kill, reply · To what, where: Dorothy, Wicked 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 (Dorothy, Beast), 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 Help | punct |
| 2 | Help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Help | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 kill | mark |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Help | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Witch | det |
| 7 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Witch | amod |
| 8 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 West | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 West | det |
| 11 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Witch | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Help | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Help | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Beast | det |
| 16 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | infinitive | Dorothy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | the Wicked Witch of the West | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Beast | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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