The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 25
“Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?” asked the Tin Woodman.
Who acts: needles · What happens: be, stick out, ask · To what, where: needles, head, Tin Woodman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (needles), 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 | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 needles | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 needles | cop |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 needles | det |
| 5 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pins | cc |
| 7 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 needles | conj |
| 8 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 needles | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticking | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sticking | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 needles | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Woodman | det |
| 17 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Woodman | compound |
| 18 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that needles and pins | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stick out in a quote | gerund | that needles and pins not said here | your head | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Tin Woodman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient |
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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