The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 43
“This isn’t the road,” said the Stork, as she twisted her long neck and looked sharply at the queer party.
Who acts: This, road, Stork · What happens: be, say, twist, look · To what, where: road, long neck · 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 (This, road, Stork), 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 | _ | 6 road | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 road | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 road | cop |
| 4 | n’t | n't | CCONJ | _ | 6 road | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 road | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 road | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Stork | det |
| 11 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 twisted | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 twisted | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 twisted | nsubj |
| 15 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neck | amod |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 twisted | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 twisted | conj |
| 21 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 party | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 party | det |
| 24 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 party | compound |
| 25 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the road | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the road | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | twist | past | Stork | Stork's long neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Stork not said here | at the queer party; sharply property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at party=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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