The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 28

But the little woman evidently expected her to answer; so Dorothy said, with hesitation, “You are very kind, but there must be some mistake.

Who acts: little woman, Dorothy, You, mistake · What happens: expect, answer, say, be · To what, where: Dorothy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little woman, Dorothy, You, mistake), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 expected	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expected	nsubj
5	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	6 expected	advmod
6	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 expected	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 answer	mark
9	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 expected	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
12	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expected	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hesitation	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 hesitation	case
16	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kind	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 kind	punct
19	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 kind	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 kind	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 kind	advmod
22	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 be	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 be	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 be	expl
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 be	aux
27	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 kind	conj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 mistake	det
29	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 be	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	past	the little woman	Dorothy		evidently property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy			hesitation vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	You			kind property	tree rules
5	be in a quote	must	some mistake		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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