The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 19
“Suppose we call the field mice,” she suggested.
Who acts: we, heart · What happens: call, suggest · To what, where: field mice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, heart), 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 call | punct |
| 2 | Suppose | suppose | X | _ | 4 call | compound |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mice | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mice | compound |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suggested | nsubj |
| 11 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | we | the field mice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | past | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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