The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 22

So the Scarecrow at last asked the green girl to take another message to Oz, saying if he did not let them in to see him at once they would call the Winged Monkeys to help them, and find out whether he kept his promises or not.

Who acts: Scarecrow, Oz, travelers, Winged · What happens: ask, take, say, not let in, see, call · To what, where: green girl, message, Oz, travelers, promises · 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 (Scarecrow, Oz, travelers, Winged), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Scarecrow	det
3	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Scarecrow	nmod
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	ccomp
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 message	det
13	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Oz	case
15	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asked	advcl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 let	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saying	ccomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	22 let	compound:prt
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 call	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 call	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 call	aux
32	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 see	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Winged	det
34	Winged	Winged	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Monkeys	nsubj
35	Monkeys	monkey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 call	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 help	mark
37	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 Monkeys	xcomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 help	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 find	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 find	cc
41	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 find	compound:prt
43	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	45 kept	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 kept	nsubj
45	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 find	advcl
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 promises	nmod:poss
47	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 kept	obj
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 not	cc
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 promises	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Scarecrow at last		the green girl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		another message	Oz	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to oz=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the Scarecrow at last not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not let in a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Oz	travelers = traveler		tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	travelers = traveler not said here	Oz		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	call speech: assert	would	travelers = traveler			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at once=Stimulus
7	monkey	present	the Winged			tree rules
8	help	to-infinitive	the Winged not said here	travelers = traveler		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
9	find out	infinitive	the Scarecrow at last not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
10	keep	past	Oz	Oz's promises		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
11	promise		Oz			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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