The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 16
“Good-bye!” he called after them, and they were very sorry to leave him.
Who acts: Kansas, Scarecrow · What happens: call, be, leave · To what, where: Kansas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kansas, Scarecrow), 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 | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 2 Good | flat |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Good | acl:relcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sorry | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sorry | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorry | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 sorry | advmod |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Good | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 leave | mark |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sorry | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Kansas | after Scarecrow | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Scarecrow | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Scarecrow not said here | Kansas | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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