The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 70
“You’re more than that,” said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; “you’re a humbug.”
Who acts: You, Scarecrow · What happens: be, say, grieve · To what, where: more, grieved tone, humbug · 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 (You, Scarecrow), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 ’re | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tone | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tone | det |
| 15 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tone | amod |
| 16 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’re | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’re | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 ’re | nsubj |
| 20 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 humbug | det |
| 22 | humbug | humbug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ’re | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | You | more | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | a grieved tone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grieve | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | you | a humbug | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot humbug=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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