The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 20
“We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.”
Who acts: We · What happens: go, ask, get back · To what, where: Emerald City, Great Oz
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 (We), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 City | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 City | det |
| 7 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 City | compound |
| 8 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ask | cc |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Oz | det |
| 12 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Oz | amod |
| 13 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 get | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | advcl |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Kansas | case |
| 19 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 back | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | We | the Emerald City | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | the Great Oz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get back in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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