The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 6

Then a head showed itself over the rock and the same voice said, “This hill belongs to us, and we don’t allow anyone to cross it.”

Who acts: head, same voice, hill, we · What happens: show, say, belong, not allow, cross · To what, where: head, rock, us, anyone, voice · 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, same voice, hill, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 showed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 head	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 showed	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 voice	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voice	amod
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 showed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 belongs	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 belongs	punct
16	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belongs	nsubj
18	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 belongs	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 allow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 allow	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 allow	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 allow	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 allow	advmod
26	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 showed	parataxis
27	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 allow	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cross	mark
29	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 allow	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cross	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 allow	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	show	past	a head	head		the rock	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the same voice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	belong in a quote	present	this hill		us			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	not allow in a quote	present · do-support	we		anyone			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer anyone=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	cross not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	voice				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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