The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 50
Then he asked me what you looked like, and when I mentioned your silver shoes he was very much interested.
Who acts: soldier, you, I · What happens: ask, look like, mention, be · To what, where: me, silver shoes · 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 (soldier, you, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 looked | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 looked | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mentioned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mentioned | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 mentioned | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mentioned | nsubj |
| 13 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoes | compound |
| 16 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mentioned | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 interested | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 interested | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 interested | advmod |
| 21 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mentioned | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | soldier | me | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | look like | past | you | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | past | I | your silver shoes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | soldier | interested property | tree rules |
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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