The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 89
“But how about the voice?” she inquired.
Who acts: screen · What happens: inquire
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 (screen), 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 | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 inquired | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 inquired | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 voice | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 voice | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 inquired | nsubj |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | screen | about the voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about voice=Topic |
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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