The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 37
“He says so himself,” answered the Scarecrow, “and he would never hurt anyone who is our friend.
Who acts: Lion, Scarecrow · What happens: say, answer, not hurt, be · To what, where: anyone, friend · 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 (Lion, Scarecrow), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 himself | advmod |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 himself | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 himself | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Scarecrow | det |
| 10 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurt | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hurt | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hurt | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 hurt | advmod |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 hurt | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 friend | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 friend | cop |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anyone | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not hurt in a quote | would | Lion | anyone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | our friend | 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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