The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 14

Almost as quickly as it came the head went back to the body, and the man laughed harshly as he said, “It isn’t as easy as you think!”

Who acts: head, man, creature, you · What happens: come, go back, laugh, say, not be, think · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, man, creature, you), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 as	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 quickly	advmod
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 body	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 body	det
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laughed	nsubj
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
19	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	18 laughed	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 said	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 laughed	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 easy	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 easy	punct
25	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 easy	expl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 easy	cop
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 easy	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 easy	advmod
29	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 think	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 think	nsubj
32	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 easy	advcl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 easy	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	head	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go back	past	the head	to the body result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to body=Result
3	laugh	past	the man	harshly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: express	past	creature		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	present		easy property	tree rules
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	you		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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