The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 13

“Good gracious!” exclaimed the man, and he bowed very low indeed before her.

Who acts: man · What happens: exclaim, bow

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 (man), 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	_	6 exclaimed	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gracious	amod
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 exclaimed	parataxis
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bowed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bowed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bowed	nsubj
12	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 exclaimed	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 low	advmod
14	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bowed	xcomp
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 bowed	advmod
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bowed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the man						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bow	past	man				before Dorothy	indeed, low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location

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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