The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 11
“How can I cross the desert?” she inquired.
Who acts: Oz · What happens: cross, inquire · To what, where: desert · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz), 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 | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 cross | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cross | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross in a quote | can | Oz | the desert | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Patient | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Oz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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