The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 24
“Why not call the Winged Monkeys, and ask them to carry you over the desert?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not call, ask, carry · To what, where: Monkeys, you, desert · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 call | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 call | advmod |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Monkeys | det |
| 6 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Monkeys | compound |
| 7 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 call | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ask | cc |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 desert | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 desert | det |
| 17 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Monkeys = monkey | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | the desert | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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