The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 103
“No, but it’s farther from here,” he said, shaking his head at her sadly.
Who acts: oil, Kansas · What happens: be, say, shake · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oil, Kansas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:1209): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 farther | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 farther | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 farther | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 farther | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 farther | nsubj |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 farther | cop |
| 7 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 here | case |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 farther | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 farther | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 farther | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shaking | punct |
| 15 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shaking | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shaking | obl |
| 20 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 15 shaking | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | oil | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kansas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | Kansas not said here | Kansas's head | at Dorothy; sadly property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at her=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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