The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 130
“Oh, no, my dear; I’m really a very good man, but I’m a very bad Wizard, I must admit.”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: be, admit · To what, where: good man, bad Wizard
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 (Dorothy), 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 | _ | 7 dear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 dear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dear | parataxis |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 man | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ’m | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’m | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 ’m | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ’m | nsubj |
| 19 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ’m | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Wizard | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 bad | advmod |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Wizard | amod |
| 23 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ’m | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 admit | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 admit | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 admit | aux |
| 27 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ’m | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dear | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Dorothy | a good man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | Dorothy | a bad Wizard | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wizard=Theme | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other in a quote | must | Dorothy | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: 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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