The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 39

“We are on our way to the Emerald City to see the Great Oz,” she answered, “and we stopped at your cottage to pass the night.”

Who acts: We, Woodman · What happens: be, see, answer, stop, pass · To what, where: way, Great Oz, cottage · 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 (We, 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	_	6 way	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 City	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 City	det
9	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 City	compound
10	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Oz	det
14	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Oz	amod
15	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stopped	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 answered	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 cottage	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cottage	nmod:poss
27	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stopped	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pass	mark
29	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stopped	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pass	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	We		our way		to the Emerald City	tree rules
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive	Woodman not said here	the Great Oz				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz=Stimulus
3	answer speech: assert	past	Woodman					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop in a quote	past	we		your cottage			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cottage=Location
5	pass in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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