The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 9
“Oh, that is different,” said the Guardian of the Gates.
Who acts: that, different · What happens: be, say · 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 (that, different), 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 different | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 different | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 different | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 different | cop |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 different | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 different | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Guardian | det |
| 11 | Guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Gates | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Gates | det |
| 14 | Gates | Gate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Guardian | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | different | the Guardian of the Gates | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent guardian=Topic |
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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