The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 39
“Oh, let us start for the Emerald City tomorrow!”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, start · To what, where: us
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 (you, us), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 City | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 City | det |
| 9 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 City | compound |
| 10 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 start | obl |
| 11 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 start | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | tomorrow | for the Emerald City | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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