The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 24
“Get an oil-can and oil my joints,” he answered.
Who acts: man · What happens: get, answer · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 can | det |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 can | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 oil | punct |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Get | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 joints | cc |
| 8 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joints | compound |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 joints | nmod:poss |
| 10 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Get | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | man | tree rules |
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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