The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 46

“Over there in the river,” answered the little girl.

Who acts: little girl · What happens: answer · To what, where: river

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 (little girl), 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	_	3 there	punct
2	Over	over	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 there	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the little girl			the river			vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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