The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 38
“What promise?” asked Oz.
What happens: ask
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: 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 | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 promise | det |
| 3 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Oz. | compound |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Oz. | amod |
| 7 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | 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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