The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 71

“Exactly so!” declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him.

Who acts: little man · What happens: declare, rub · To what, where: hands

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 (little man), 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 declared	punct
2	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 declared	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 declared	punct
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rubbing	punct
11	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 declared	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rubbing	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	11 rubbing	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 pleased	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 pleased	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pleased	nsubj
18	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rubbing	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pleased	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the little man						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	rub	gerund	the little man not said here	man's hands				together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=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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