The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 32
“I didn’t know there was a charm,” answered Dorothy, in surprise.
Who acts: Dorothy, charm · What happens: not know, be, answer · To what, where: surprise · 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 (Dorothy, charm), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 charm | det |
| 9 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 surprise | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 surprise | case |
| 16 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | a charm | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Dorothy | surprise | tree rules |
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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