The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 47
“Of course,” answered the girl, “if he will see me.”
Who acts: girl, soldier · What happens: answer, see · To what, where: girl · 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 (girl, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 answered | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | soldier | the girl = girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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