The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 166
“Why should I give you courage?” demanded Oz.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, demand · To what, where: courage, you · 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), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 give | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Oz. | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 10 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Oz. | amod |
| 11 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | should | I | courage | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient courage=Theme | |||
| 2 | demand speech: request | participle | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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