The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 12
“Why, I am a Queen—the Queen of all the Field Mice!”
Who acts: mouse · What happens: be · To what, where: Queen
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse), 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 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Queen | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Queen | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Why | nsubj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Queen | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Queen | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Mice | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Mice | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mice | det |
| 14 | Field | Field | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Mice | compound |
| 15 | Mice | Mice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Queen | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Queen | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a mouse = mouse | a Queen | tree rules |
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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