The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 57
“Why didn’t you walk around the hole?” asked the Tin Woodman.
Who acts: Tin Woodman · What happens: not walk, ask · To what, where: hole, Tin Woodman · 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 | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 n’t | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 n’t | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 walk | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | advcl |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 hole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Woodman | det |
| 14 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Woodman | compound |
| 15 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk in a quote | present | the Tin Woodman = woodman | the hole | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around hole=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Tin Woodman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient |
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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