The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 98

“I am—I certainly am,” answered the little man sorrowfully; “but it was the only thing I could do.

Who acts: little man, Ball · What happens: answer, be, do · To what, where: only thing · 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 (little man, Ball), 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	_	3 am	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 am	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 am	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 am	nsubj
6	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 am	advmod
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 am	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 am	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 am	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
14	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	10 answered	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 thing	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 “	conj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thing	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the little man		sorrowfully property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Ball	the only thing		tree rules
3	do in a quote	could	the little man = man	the only thing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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