The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 44
“Do you suppose Oz could give me a heart?”
Who acts: you, Oz · What happens: suppose, give · To what, where: heart, Scarecrow · 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 (you, Oz), 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 | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suppose | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 suppose | nsubj |
| 4 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | could | Oz | a heart | Scarecrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient heart=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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