The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 41
“This is all true,” said Dorothy, “and I am glad I was of use to these good friends.
Who acts: This, Dorothy · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Dorothy), 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 | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 glad | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 glad | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | cop |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 use | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 use | case |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glad | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 friends | case |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 friends | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friends | amod |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 use | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | all, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Dorothy | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | Dorothy | of use; to this good friends | tree rules |
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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