The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 21

“Won’t you tell me a story, while we are resting?” asked the child.

Who acts: you, we, child · What happens: tell, rest, ask · To what, where: story, child · 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, we, child), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Wo	wo	INTJ	_	5 tell	discourse
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Wo	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 resting	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 resting	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 resting	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 resting	aux
13	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 asked	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 resting	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 resting	punct
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	a story	the child = child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic
2	rest in a quote	present · progressive	we			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the child			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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