The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 6

“How long will it be,” the child asked of the Tin Woodman, “before we are out of the forest?”

Who acts: child, we · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, we), 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	_	11 asked	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 asked	advmod
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 long	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Woodman	case
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	11 asked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forest	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 forest	punct
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 forest	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 forest	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 forest	cop
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 forest	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the child					of the Tin Woodman; long property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of woodman=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	we			the forest			tree rules

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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