The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 6
“Don’t you suppose we could rescue them?” asked the girl anxiously.
Who acts: you, we, girl · What happens: not do, suppose, rescue, ask · To what, where: friends · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | ccomp |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 rescue | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rescue | aux |
| 8 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 suppose | ccomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rescue | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rescue in a quote | could | we | friends = friend | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | anxiously property | 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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