The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 122
Then she said to Dorothy, harshly and severely:
Who acts: Witch · What happens: say · To what, where: Dorothy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch), 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 | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Dorothy | case |
| 5 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 harshly | punct |
| 7 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 severely | cc |
| 9 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 7 harshly | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Witch | Dorothy | then | harshly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dorothy=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/122/