The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 20
“They could probably tell us the way to the Emerald City.”
Who acts: mice · What happens: tell · To what, where: way, us · 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 (mice), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 City | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 City | det |
| 11 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 City | compound |
| 12 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | could | mice = mouse | the way | us | to the Emerald City; probably property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient way=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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