The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 25
“Carry us over the hill to the country of the Quadlings,” answered the girl.
Who acts: girl · What happens: carry, answer · To what, where: us, hill · 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 (girl), 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 Carry | punct |
| 2 | Carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Carry | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Quadlings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Quadlings | det |
| 12 | Quadlings | quadling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 country | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carry | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carry | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | infinitive | us | the hill | to the country of the Quadlings | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | tree rules |
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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