The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 77
“My dear friends,” said Oz, “I pray you not to speak of these little things.
Who acts: dear friends · What happens: say, pray, not speak · To what, where: you · 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 (dear friends), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | nsubj |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | obj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 speak | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 speak | mark |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pray | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 things | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 speak | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My dear friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | My dear friends = friend | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | My dear friends = friend not said here | of this little things | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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