The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 9
“But you shall not!” replied the voice, and there stepped from behind the rock the strangest man the travelers had ever seen.
Who acts: voice, strangest man · What happens: reply, step, see · To what, where: rock
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 (voice, strangest man), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 shall | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 shall | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 shall | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 shall | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shall | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stepped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stepped | cc |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stepped | advmod |
| 14 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stepped | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 travelers | det |
| 23 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 man | conj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 seen | advmod |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 rock | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the voice | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | step | participle | the voice not said here | the rock; there | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | the strangest man and the travelers | the rock not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
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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