The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 1

Next morning the Scarecrow said to his friends:

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: say · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Scarecrow	det
4	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 friends	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow		his friends		morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient

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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