The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 23
“What can I do for you?” she inquired softly, for she was moved by the sad voice in which the man spoke.
Who acts: Toto, sad voice, man · What happens: do, inquire, move, speak · To what, where: Toto, sad voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toto, sad voice, man), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 11 inquired | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moved | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 moved | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 moved | aux:pass |
| 17 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 inquired | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 voice | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 20 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 voice | amod |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moved | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 spoke | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spoke | nsubj |
| 26 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 voice | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | Toto | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Toto | softly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | move | past · passive | the sad voice | Toto | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | the man | the sad voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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