The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 13
“And I think I shall need their service just those three times,” answered Glinda, smiling.
Who acts: I, Glinda, crops · What happens: think, need, answer, smile, service · To what, where: service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Glinda, crops), 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 think | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 need | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 need | aux |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 service | nmod:poss |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | obj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 times | advmod |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 times | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 17 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smiling | punct |
| 19 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 answered | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need in a quote | shall | I | crops's service | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot service=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Glinda | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smile | gerund | Glinda not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | service in a quote | crops = crop | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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