The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 21
“Oh, no,” returned the soldier; “I have never seen him.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: return, not see · To what, where: soldier
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 (Dorothy), 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 | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 returned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 seen | advmod |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 returned | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the soldier | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | Dorothy | soldier | 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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