The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 179
“Be careful!” cried the green girl.
Who acts: green girl · What happens: be, cry · 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 (green girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:877): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the green girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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