The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 76

“Send me back to Kansas, where my Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are,” she answered earnestly.

Who acts: you, Aunt · What happens: send back, answer · To what, where: Aunt · 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 (you, Aunt), 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 Send	punct
2	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Send	iobj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 Send	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Kansas	case
6	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Send	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 are	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 are	advmod
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Aunt	nmod:poss
10	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 are	nsubj
11	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Aunt	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Henry	cc
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Henry	compound
14	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Em	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Kansas	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Send	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Send	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Send	parataxis
20	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	19 answered	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back in a quote	imperative	you not said here		Aunt			to Kansas	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Aunt					earnestly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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