The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 46
After a few moments she came back to say that Dorothy and the others were to be admitted at once.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: come back, say, admit · To what, where: Dorothy · 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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 admitted | mark |
| 11 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 others | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Dorothy | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 admitted | aux:pass |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 admitted | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 admitted | aux:pass |
| 18 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 say | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 admitted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | soldier | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | past · passive | Dorothy and the others | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at once=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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