The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 22
“Why didn’t we think of that before?”
Who acts: we · What happens: not do, think
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 (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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 think | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | we | of that; before property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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