The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 48
“Is there no one who can help me?” asked Dorothy earnestly.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, help, ask · To what, where: one, me, Dorothy · 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 (one), 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 one | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 help | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | help in a quote | can | no one | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Dorothy | earnestly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient |
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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