The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 113
Now the Scarecrow, who had expected to see the great Head Dorothy had told him of, was much astonished; but he answered her bravely.
Who acts: Scarecrow, great Head Dorothy, Oz. · What happens: expect, see, tell, be, answer · To what, where: Scarecrow, Oz., Oz · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, great Head Dorothy, Oz.), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Scarecrow | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 astonished | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expected | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 expected | aux |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Scarecrow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expected | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dorothy | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Dorothy | amod |
| 12 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dorothy | compound |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 see | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 told | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Scarecrow | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 astonished | cop |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 astonished | advmod |
| 21 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 answered | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 answered | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 answered | nsubj |
| 25 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 astonished | parataxis |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 answered | obj |
| 27 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 25 answered | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · perfect · passive | the Scarecrow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | the great Head Dorothy | Oz. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the Scarecrow | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | Oz. | Oz | bravely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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