The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 83
“But, I don’t understand,” said Dorothy, in bewilderment.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: not understand, say · 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 (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 | _ | 7 understand | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 understand | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 understand | advmod |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 understand | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 understand | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bewilderment | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bewilderment | case |
| 14 | bewilderment | bewilderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Dorothy | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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