The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 96
“I never killed anything, willingly,” she sobbed.
Who acts: Dorothy, Oz · What happens: not kill, sob · To what, where: anything
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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 killed | advmod |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sobbed | advcl |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willingly | punct |
| 7 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 4 killed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willingly | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sobbed | nsubj |
| 11 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill in a quote | past | Dorothy | anything | willingly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | sob | past | Oz | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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