The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 38
“And I shall get back to Kansas,” cried Dorothy, clapping her hands.
Who acts: I · What happens: get back, cry, clap · To what, where: hands · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Kansas | case |
| 8 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 back | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clapping | punct |
| 14 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clapping | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back in a quote | shall | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | clap | gerund | Kansas's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
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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