The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 14

“Won’t you go with me?” pleaded the girl, who had begun to look upon the little old woman as her only friend.

Who acts: you, girl · What happens: not go, plead, begin, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl), 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	_	10 pleaded	punct
2	Wo	wo	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pleaded	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
10	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pleaded	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begun	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 begun	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 begun	aux
16	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 girl	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begun	xcomp
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 woman	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 friend	advmod
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	present	you	with the girl = girl	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary
2	plead speech: request	past	the girl		tree rules
3	begin	past · perfect	the girl		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	upon the little old woman; as woman	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon woman=Theme

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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