The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 21

“To be sure they could,” cried the Scarecrow.

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: be, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow), 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 sure	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	4 sure	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 could	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 could	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 could	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Scarecrow	det
11	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	to-infinitive						sure property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the Scarecrow						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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