The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 63

Toto only wagged his tail; for, strange to say, he could not speak.

Who acts: Toto · What happens: wag, say, not speak · To what, where: tail · 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 (Toto), 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	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 wagged	advmod
3	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 strange	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 strange	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strange	punct
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wagged	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 strange	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 speak	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 speak	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 speak	advmod
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wagged	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wagged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wag	past	Toto	Toto's tail	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Toto not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not speak speech: other	could	Toto		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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