The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 37
“It is not a great way,” answered the farmer’s wife.
Who acts: door, wife · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: great way · 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 (door, wife), 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 | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 way | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 farmer | case |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | door | a great way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the farmer's wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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