The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 22

But I spoke to him as he sat behind his screen and gave him your message.

Who acts: I, soldier · What happens: speak, sit, give · To what, where: soldier, screen, message · 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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 spoke	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	advcl
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 screen	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 screen	nmod:poss
11	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 message	nmod:poss
16	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	I		soldier		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
2	sit	past	soldier			soldier's screen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind screen=Location
3	give	past	soldier not said here	your message	soldier		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient message=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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