The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 107
“Oh, I’m not afraid,” replied the Scarecrow.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: be, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow), 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 | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 ’m | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ’m | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | advcl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 afraid | advmod |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ’m | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Scarecrow | det |
| 12 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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