The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 125
The Scarecrow went sorrowfully back to his friends and told them what Oz had said; and Dorothy was surprised to find that the Great Wizard was not a Head, as she had seen him, but a lovely Lady.
Who acts: Scarecrow, Oz, Dorothy, Great Wizard · What happens: go, tell, say, be, find, not be · To what, where: friends, Head, Scarecrow · 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, Oz, Dorothy, Great Wizard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 5 back | advmod |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 back | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 said | obj |
| 13 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 surprised | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Dorothy | cc |
| 18 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 surprised | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 surprised | cop |
| 20 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 surprised | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 Head | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Wizard | det |
| 25 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Wizard | amod |
| 26 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Head | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 Head | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 Head | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Head | det |
| 30 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seen | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 seen | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Lady | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 Lady | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 Lady | det |
| 40 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Lady | amod |
| 41 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 seen | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Scarecrow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow not said here | friends = friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Oz | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Dorothy | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is a | past | the Great Wizard | a Head | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | past · perfect | Oz | Scarecrow | a lovely Lady obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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