The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 19
“This funny tin man,” she answered, “killed the Wildcat and saved my life.
Who acts: This, funny tin man · What happens: man, answer, kill, save · To what, where: Wildcat, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, funny tin man), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wildcat | det |
| 14 | Wildcat | wildcat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saved | cc |
| 16 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saved | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | man in a quote | This | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | funny tin man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | past | the Wildcat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildcat=Theme | |||||
| 4 | save in a quote | past | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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