The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 6
“With pleasure,” she answered, and brought a towel at once.
Who acts: Oz · What happens: answer, bring · To what, where: towel
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 (Oz), 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 pleasure | case |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleasure | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleasure | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 towel | det |
| 12 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Oz | with pleasure | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Oz not said here | a towel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent towel=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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