The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 19
“I am now worse off than when I first met Dorothy,” he thought.
Who acts: Kansas · What happens: be, meet, think · To what, where: Dorothy · 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), 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 worse | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 worse | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 worse | advmod |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 worse | compound:prt |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 met | mark |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 met | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 met | advmod |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | advcl |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Kansas | now | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet in a quote | past | Kansas | Dorothy | first property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Kansas | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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