The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 18
“I should like something to eat besides fruit,” said the girl, “and I’m sure Toto is nearly starved.
Who acts: girl · What happens: like, eat, say, be, starve · To what, where: something, besides fruit, Toto · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 like | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fruit | compound |
| 9 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’m | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’m | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ’m | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ’m | nsubj |
| 19 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ’m | xcomp |
| 21 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 starved | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 starved | aux:pass |
| 23 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 24 starved | advmod |
| 24 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | the girl = girl | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the girl = girl not said here | besides fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | the girl = girl | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | starve in a quote | present · passive | Toto | nearly 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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