The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 11

“Tell me something about yourself and the country you came from,” said the Scarecrow, when she had finished her dinner.

Who acts: you, Scarecrow, country · What happens: tell, come, say, finish · To what, where: something, Scarecrow, country, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Scarecrow, country), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 Tell	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 yourself	case
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 something	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 country	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yourself	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 country	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	11 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Scarecrow	det
17	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 finished	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 finished	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 finished	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 finished	aux
22	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 Scarecrow	acl:relcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dinner	nmod:poss
24	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 finished	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		something	the Scarecrow = scarecrow	about yourself	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Topic
2	come in a quote	past	you	the country not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location country=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	finish	past · perfect	country	country's dinner			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector dinner=Eventuality

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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