The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 85

“That was one of my tricks,” answered Oz. “Step this way, please, and I will tell you all about it.”

Who acts: That, Oz., I, my · What happens: be, answer, step, tell, trick · To what, where: one, way, you · 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 (That, Oz., I, my), 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 one	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 answered	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tricks	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tricks	nmod:poss
7	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 answered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tricks	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 tricks	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Oz.	Oz.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Step	nsubj
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Step	punct
13	Step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	ccomp
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Step	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 please	punct
17	please	please	INTJ	_	13 Step	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Step	parataxis
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 you	nmod:unmarked
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Step	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	That	one			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past				of my tricks	tree rules
3	step in a quote	infinitive	Oz.	this way			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I		you	about way	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about it=Topic
5	trick in a quote		my				nom trick «act 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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