The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 28
“I will not let him,” said the Woodman; “so do not be afraid.”
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: not let, say, not be · To what, where: mouse · 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 (Woodman), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | 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 Woodman | det |
| 11 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 afraid | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 afraid | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 afraid | cop |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | future | the Woodman = woodman | mouse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | afraid property | 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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