The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 6
“How, then, are we to find her?” inquired the girl.
Who acts: we, girl · What happens: be, inquire · 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 (we, girl), 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 | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 then | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 How | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 find | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | cop |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 inquired | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 13 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inquired | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | we | then | find property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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