The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 8
“Perhaps not,” said the Scarecrow, “for we mean to destroy her.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, we · What happens: say, mean, destroy · To what, where: Guardian · 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 (Scarecrow, we), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Perhaps | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perhaps | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Scarecrow | det |
| 8 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 mean | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 destroy | mark |
| 15 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mean | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 destroy | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | perhaps property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | we | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | destroy not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | Guardian | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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