The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 83

“My name is Dorothy,” said the girl, “and I am going to the Emerald City, to ask the Great Oz to send me back to Kansas.”

Who acts: name, Dorothy, My · What happens: be, say, go, ask, send back, name · To what, where: Dorothy, girl, Emerald City, Great Oz · 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 (name, Dorothy, My), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Dorothy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Dorothy	cop
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Dorothy	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Dorothy	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 going	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 City	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 City	det
19	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 City	compound
20	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 going	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Oz	det
25	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Oz	flat
26	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ask	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 send	mark
28	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ask	xcomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 send	iobj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 send	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Kansas	case
32	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 send	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	My name	Dorothy				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy	the girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	Dorothy			the Emerald City		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here		the Great Oz			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient clause=Topic
5	send back not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here		Dorothy		to Kansas	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kansas=Destination
6	name in a quote		My					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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