The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 158
“And now,” said Dorothy, “how am I to get back to Kansas?”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: say, get back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 get | advmod |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Kansas | case |
| 17 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 back | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Dorothy | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get back in a quote | present | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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