The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 9
“Well, I’m not sure about Kansas,” said Oz, “for I haven’t the faintest notion which way it lies.
Who acts: Oz, way · What happens: be, say, not have, lie · To what, where: faintest notion · 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, way), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 ’m | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ’m | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sure | advmod |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ’m | ccomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 Kansas | case |
| 9 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sure | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lies | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 lies | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lies | advcl |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 have | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 notion | det |
| 21 | faintest | faint | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 notion | amod |
| 22 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 23 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lies | nsubj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lies | nsubj |
| 26 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Oz | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Oz | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | present | Oz | the faintest notion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | present | which way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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