The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 69
“Not a bit of it, my dear; I’m just a common man.”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: be · To what, where: common man
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 | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bit | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dear | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’m | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ’m | nsubj |
| 12 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dear | parataxis |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 man | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ’m | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’m | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Dorothy | a common man | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
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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