The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 55
“The Quadlings think she is good,” said the soldier, “and she is kind to everyone.
Who acts: Quadlings, castle, soldier · What happens: think, be, say · To what, where: soldier · 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 (Quadlings, castle, soldier), 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Quadlings | det |
| 3 | Quadlings | quadling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 good | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | cop |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kind | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kind | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kind | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kind | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 kind | cop |
| 18 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 everyone | case |
| 20 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 kind | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Quadlings | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | castle | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | castle | the soldier not said here | to everyone; kind property | 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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