The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 16
Some of us are very good tinsmiths,” they told her.
Who acts: good tinsmiths · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: good tinsmiths, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good tinsmiths), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 tinsmiths | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tinsmiths | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tinsmiths | amod |
| 7 | tinsmiths | tinsmith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tinsmiths | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tinsmiths | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · passive | good tinsmiths | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | good tinsmiths | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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.
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