The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 25
As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.
Who acts: Oz · What happens: say, be · To what, where: good man, bad Wizard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 said | mark |
| 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 | 9 man | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Wizard | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 Wizard | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 Wizard | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Wizard | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Wizard | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Wizard | det |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Wizard | amod |
| 17 | Wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Oz | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Oz | a good man and a bad Wizard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | Oz | a bad Wizard | 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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