The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 34

But one day the girl thought of Aunt Em, and said, “We must go back to Oz, and claim his promise.”

Who acts: girl, We, Oz · What happens: think, say, go back, claim, promise · To what, where: Oz, promise · 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, We, Oz), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 thought	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Aunt	case
8	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thought	obl
9	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Aunt	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Oz	case
20	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 claim	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 claim	cc
23	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	ccomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 promise	nmod:poss
25	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 claim	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 claim	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 claim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the girl			day	of Aunt	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go back in a quote	must	We		Oz			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to oz=Result
4	claim speech: other in a quote	infinitive		Oz's promise				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent promise=Topic
5	promise in a quote		Oz					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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