The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 45
They told who they were, and the girl soldier went into the Castle.
Who acts: travelers, girl soldier · What happens: tell, go · To what, where: Castle · 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 (travelers, girl soldier), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 told | obj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 were | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 who | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soldier | compound |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 Castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Castle | det |
| 14 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | travelers = traveler | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the girl soldier | the Castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location |
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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