The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 66
“And I am going to ask him to send Toto and me back to Kansas,” added Dorothy.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: go, ask, send, add · To what, where: Oz, Toto · 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 (Dorothy), 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 | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 going | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 added | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 send | mark |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | xcomp |
| 11 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 me | cc |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Toto | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 send | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Kansas | case |
| 16 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 19 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 added | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Dorothy | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | Oz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | Toto | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Theme | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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