The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 38
How did you happen to be here?”
Who acts: you · What happens: happen, be
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 (you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happen | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 here | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 here | cop |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happen | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · do-support | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | here property | 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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