The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 27
“We have lost our way,” said Dorothy.
Who acts: We, Dorothy · What happens: lose, say · To what, where: way · 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, Dorothy), 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 lost | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | present · perfect | We | our way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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