The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 36
“How far is it to the Castle of Glinda?” asked the child.
Who acts: door, Castle · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: child · 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 (door, Castle), 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 | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 Castle | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 far | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 far | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Castle | det |
| 8 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Glinda | case |
| 10 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Castle | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Castle | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Castle | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | door | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Castle of Glinda | the child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
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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