The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 17
“Then bring them to me,” she said.
Who acts: girl · What happens: bring, say · To what, where: tinsmiths, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bring | advmod |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | tinsmiths = tinsmith | girl | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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