The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 28
“Oil my neck, first,” replied the Tin Woodman.
Who acts: Tin Woodman · What happens: oil, reply · To what, where: neck · 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 (Tin Woodman), 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 Oil | punct |
| 2 | Oil | oil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 neck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oil | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Oil | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oil | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oil | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Woodman | det |
| 11 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Woodman | compound |
| 12 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oil in a quote | infinitive | my neck | first property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent neck=Destination | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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