The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 111

I’ll tell you a secret,” he continued, as he walked along.

Who acts: I, Toto · What happens: tell, continue, walk · To what, where: secret, you · 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 (I, Toto), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 continued	nsubj
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walked	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 walked	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 walked	nsubj
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 continued	conj
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 walked	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	a secret	you		tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past	Toto				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk in a quote	past	Toto			along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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