The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 8
Then he said good-bye to them all in a cheerful voice and went to the Throne Room, where he rapped upon the door.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: say, go, rap · To what, where: Throne Room, door · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | xcomp |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bye | punct |
| 6 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bye | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bye | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Room | det |
| 18 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Room | compound |
| 19 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rapped | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 rapped | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rapped | nsubj |
| 23 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Room | acl:relcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 door | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rapped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | then | good property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | Dorothy not said here | the Throne Room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rap | past | Dorothy | the door | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon door=Location |
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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