The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 146
“Perhaps I have, but I’m scared just the same,” said the Lion.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: have, be, say · 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 (Lion), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ’m | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 ’m | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ’m | nsubj |
| 8 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 9 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ’m | xcomp |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 same | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scared | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lion | det |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | perhaps property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | scared property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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