The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 26
“Yes, of course,” replied Oz. “I am tired of being such a humbug.
Who acts: Oz. · What happens: reply, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz.), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 of | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 2 Yes | advmod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 humbug | case |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 humbug | cop |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 humbug | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 humbug | det |
| 18 | humbug | humbug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tired | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Oz. | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Oz. | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | gerund | of such humbug | tree rules |
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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