The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 68
“Did you speak?” asked the girl, in wonder.
Who acts: you, girl · What happens: speak, ask · 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 (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 | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wonder | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wonder | case |
| 12 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl and wonder | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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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