The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 20
“Call the Winged Monkeys,” suggested the Tin Woodman.
Who acts: Tin Woodman · What happens: call, suggest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. 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), 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 | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 2 | Call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 suggested | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Monkeys | det |
| 4 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Monkeys | compound |
| 5 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Call | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 8 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Woodman | det |
| 10 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Woodman | compound |
| 11 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 suggested | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | infinitive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the Tin Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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