The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 45

“Dear me,” said the Voice, “how sudden!

Who acts: me · What happens: 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 (me), 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 said	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 me	amod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Voice	det
8	Voice	Voice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sudden	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 sudden	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sudden	advmod
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	me						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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