The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 64
“Don’t mind Mr. Joker,” said the Princess to Dorothy.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: not mind, say · To what, where: Joker · 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 (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 | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Joker | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Joker | Joker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Dorothy | case |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Princess | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Joker Mr. | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joker=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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