The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 114
“No,” answered the Scarecrow; “it’s a lighted match.”
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: answer, light · 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ’s | nsubj |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 match | det |
| 13 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 match | amod |
| 14 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’s | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | light in a quote | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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