The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 45
“This little girl,” said the Scarecrow to the soldier, “wishes to cross the desert.
Who acts: little girl · What happens: say, cross · To what, where: Scarecrow, soldier, 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 (little girl), 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 girl | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Scarecrow | det |
| 9 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 soldier | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wishes | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wishes | punct |
| 15 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 soldier | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cross | mark |
| 17 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 desert | det |
| 19 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cross | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this little girl | the Scarecrow | the soldier and wishes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Topic to soldier=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cross in a quote | to-infinitive | this little girl not said here | the desert | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Patient |
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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