The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 12
“They surely will never do for a long journey, Toto,” she said.
Who acts: shoes, girl · What happens: not do, say · To what, where: Toto · 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 (shoes, girl), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 journey | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 journey | amod |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Toto | punct |
| 12 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | shoes = shoe | Toto | for a long journey; surely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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