The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 37
“We have come to claim our promise, O Oz.”
Who acts: We, our · What happens: come, claim, promise · To what, where: promise
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 (We, our), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 claim | mark |
| 6 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 promise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 claim | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oz. | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 Oz. | discourse |
| 11 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promise | appos |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oz. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | We | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | claim speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | our promise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent promise=Topic | ||||
| 3 | promise in a quote | our | 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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