The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 50
“Who is Glinda?” inquired the Scarecrow.
Who acts: Glinda · What happens: be, inquire · To what, where: Glinda, Scarecrow · 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 (Glinda), 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 Glinda | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 Glinda | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Glinda | cop |
| 4 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Glinda | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Glinda | punct |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | 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 inquired | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Glinda | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Glinda | the Scarecrow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scarecrow=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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