The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 6
“To wash my face clean after the dust of the road, and to drink, so the dry bread will not stick in my throat.”
Who acts: dry bread · What happens: wash, drink, not stick · To what, where: face, throat
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 (dry bread), 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 | _ | 3 wash | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 wash | mark |
| 3 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wash | obj |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wash | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 dust | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dust | det |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wash | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dust | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drink | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drink | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drink | mark |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 wash | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stick | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 stick | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bread | det |
| 20 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bread | amod |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stick | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 stick | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 stick | advmod |
| 24 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wash | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 throat | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 throat | nmod:poss |
| 27 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stick | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wash | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash in a quote | to-infinitive | my face | after the dust of the road | clean property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | |||
| 2 | drink in a quote | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not stick in a quote | future | the dry bread | my throat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=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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