The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 52
“Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know,” replied the Princess.
Who acts: one, you, Princess · What happens: not be, mend, know, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, you, Princess), 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 | _ | 14 mended | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 yes | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 so | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 so | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 so | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 so | cop |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 so | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 mended | advmod |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 14 mended | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 mended | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 mended | aux:pass |
| 14 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mended | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mended | punct |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 replied | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | one | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mend in a quote | gerund · passive | pretty property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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