The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 41
“It is certainly too bad!” said the tender-hearted Woodman.
Who acts: charm, hearted Woodman · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charm, hearted Woodman), 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 | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Woodman | det |
| 11 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hearted | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tender | punct |
| 13 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Woodman | amod |
| 14 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | charm | bad, certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the hearted Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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