The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 51
The Tin Woodman had asked Dorothy to put the oil-can in her basket.
Who acts: Tin Woodman · What happens: ask, put · To what, where: Dorothy, basket
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Woodman | compound |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | aux |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 can | det |
| 10 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 can | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 oil | punct |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 basket | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 basket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | the Tin Woodman | Dorothy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman not said here | Woodman's basket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in basket=Destination |
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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