The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 9
“Don’t speak of it, I beg of you,” replied the Woodman.
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: not speak, beg, reply · 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 | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beg | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 beg | nsubj |
| 9 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 beg | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beg | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Woodman | det |
| 16 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | of life | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the Woodman = woodman | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Woodman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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