The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 46
“If that is so,” said the child joyfully, “I will ask them to carry me back to Kansas at once.”
Who acts: that, child · What happens: be, say, ask, carry back · To what, where: Shoes, child, Kansas · 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 (that, child), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | aux |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 carry | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 carry | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Kansas | case |
| 23 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 carry | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 carry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the child | joyfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | the child = child | Shoes = shoe | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | carry back not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the child = child not said here | the child = child | Kansas | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kansas=Destination |
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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