The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 7

“We can try,” answered the Lion.

Who acts: We, Lion · What happens: try, answer · 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 (We, Lion), 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 try	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lion	det
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	can	We						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Lion						tree rules

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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