The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 62
“Can’t you see these are strangers, and should be treated with respect?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not see, be, treat · To what, where: strangers
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 13 treated | punct |
| 2 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 strangers | det |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 strangers | cop |
| 8 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 treated | cc |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 treated | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 treated | aux:pass |
| 13 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 respect | case |
| 15 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treated | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 treated | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this strangers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | treat in a quote | should · passive | with respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with respect=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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