The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 52
“I will make a ladder,” said the Tin Woodman, “for we certainly must climb over the wall.”
Who acts: Tin Woodman, we · What happens: make, say, climb · To what, where: ladder, wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, we), 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 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ladder | det |
| 6 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Woodman | det |
| 11 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Woodman | compound |
| 12 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 climb | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 climb | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 climb | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 climb | nsubj |
| 17 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 19 climb | advmod |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 climb | aux |
| 19 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 wall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 climb | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 climb | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | future | the Tin Woodman = woodman | a ladder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | climb in a quote | must | we | the wall | certainly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory |
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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