The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 3
“Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?” asked Dorothy.
Who acts: road · What happens: lead, ask · To what, where: Dorothy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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 | _ | 4 leads | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leads | nsubj |
| 4 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Witch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Witch | det |
| 7 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Witch | amod |
| 8 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leads | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 West | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 West | det |
| 11 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Witch | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leads | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leads | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leads | advcl |
| 15 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in a quote | present | which road | to the Wicked Witch of the West | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to witch=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | which road not said here | Dorothy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient |
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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