The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 29
“Certainly,” answered the Queen; “but it is a great way off, for you have had it at your backs all this time.”
Who acts: Queen, City, you · What happens: answer, be, have · To what, where: great way, City, backs · 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 (Queen, City, you), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 way | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 way | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 way | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | aux |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 way | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 backs | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 backs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 had | obl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 time | det:predet |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Queen | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | City | a great way | off property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present · perfect | you | City | your backs | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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