The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 57
“I can’t come back, my dear,” called Oz from the basket.
Who acts: I · What happens: not come back, call · To what, where: basket · 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 (I), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 come | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 come | advcl |
| 13 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 basket | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 basket | det |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come back in a quote | can | I | my dear vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | the basket | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from basket=Source |
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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