The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 61
“Who is Aunt Em?” inquired the little old woman.
Who acts: Aunt · What happens: be, inquire · To what, where: Aunt, little old woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aunt), 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 Aunt | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 Aunt | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Aunt | cop |
| 4 | Aunt | Aunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 inquired | nsubj |
| 5 | Em | Em | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Aunt | flat |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Aunt | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Aunt | punct |
| 8 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inquired | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Aunt | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Aunt | the little old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=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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