The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 35
“Oh, no,” declared the Scarecrow; “this Lion is a coward.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, Lion · What happens: declare, be · To what, where: coward · 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 (Scarecrow, Lion), 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 | _ | 7 declared | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 declared | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Scarecrow | det |
| 9 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 declared | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 declared | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 coward | punct |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Lion | det |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 coward | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 coward | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 coward | det |
| 16 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 declared | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 coward | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 coward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the Scarecrow | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this Lion | a coward | 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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