The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 15
“I wonder if they will fit me,” she said to Toto.
Who acts: Dorothy, shoes · What happens: wonder, fit, say · To what, where: Dorothy, Toto · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, shoes), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fit | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | aux |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fit | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Toto | case |
| 14 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Dorothy | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fit a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | shoes = shoe | Dorothy | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | Toto | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to toto=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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