The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 9
“Don’t try, my dear,” he answered.
Who acts: farewell · What happens: not try, answer · 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 (farewell), 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 try | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 try | advmod |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dear | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 try | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my dear vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | farewell | 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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