The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 62
Then the mouth moved, and Dorothy heard a voice say:
Who acts: mouth, Dorothy, voice · What happens: move, hear, say · To what, where: voice · 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 (mouth, Dorothy, voice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 moved | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouth | det |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heard | cc |
| 7 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 voice | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the mouth | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Dorothy | a voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | a voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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