The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 8
“She could not help it, for she is melted,” explained the Scarecrow.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: not help, melt, explain · To what, where: wonder, Scarecrow · 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 (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 | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 explained | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 melted | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 melted | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 melted | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 melted | aux:pass |
| 11 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 help | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 14 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Scarecrow | det |
| 16 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 explained | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | could | Scarecrow | wonder | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | melt in a quote | present · passive | Scarecrow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how 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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