The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 91
“Do you think,” he asked, “if I go to the Emerald City with you, that Oz would give me some brains?”
Who acts: you, Oz · What happens: think, ask, go, give · To what, where: Emerald City, brains, 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 (you, Oz), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 City | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 City | det |
| 16 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 City | compound |
| 17 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 22 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 brains | det |
| 27 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Oz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Oz | the Emerald City | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | would | Oz | some brains | Oz | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brain=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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