The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 3
“What! are you back again?” he asked, in surprise.
Who acts: City · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: surprise · 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 (City), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 back | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 back | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 back | nsubj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 back | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 back | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 back | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surprise | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | again | back property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | City | surprise | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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