The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 21
“Well, then, what can be done?” inquired the Woodman.
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: do, inquire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman), 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 | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 done | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 done | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 done | obj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 inquired | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Woodman | det |
| 14 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can · passive | the Woodman not said here | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the Woodman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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