The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 64
Then she looked up and said, “I do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before.
Who acts: Witch, Kansas, country · What happens: look up, say, not know, be, not hear, mention · 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 (Witch, Kansas, country), 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 | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 know | ccomp |
| 14 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 where | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 where | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 heard | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 heard | advmod |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 know | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mentioned | nsubj |
| 24 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | ccomp |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 mentioned | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Witch | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Witch not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Witch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Kansas | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | Witch | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | mention speech: other in a quote | past | that country | before property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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