The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 59
“And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast,” said the Tin Woodman.
Who acts: I, Oz, Tin Woodman · What happens: think, be, say · To what, where: terrible Beast · 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 (I, Oz, Tin Woodman), 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 | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Beast | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Beast | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Beast | det |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Beast | amod |
| 9 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Woodman | det |
| 14 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Woodman | compound |
| 15 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Oz | a terrible Beast | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | 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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