The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 86
“But it is not a foolish errand, nor an idle one,” replied the Scarecrow; “it is important.
Who acts: instant, foolish errand · What happens: not be, reply, be · To what, where: foolish errand, Scarecrow · 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 (instant, foolish errand), 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 | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 errand | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 errand | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 errand | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 errand | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 errand | det |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 errand | amod |
| 8 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 one | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 errand | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 errand | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 errand | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Scarecrow | det |
| 18 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 important | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 important | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 important | expl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 important | cop |
| 23 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 replied | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | instant | a foolish errand nor a idle one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | a foolish errand nor a idle one | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a foolish errand nor a idle one not said here | important 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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