The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 38
When Boq saw her silver shoes he said, “You must be a great sorceress.”
Who acts: Boq, Kansas, You · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: silver shoes, great sorceress · 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 (Boq, Kansas, You), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Boq | Boq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoes | compound |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorceress | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorceress | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sorceress | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorceress | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sorceress | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sorceress | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sorceress | amod |
| 16 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorceress | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorceress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Boq | Boq's silver shoes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kansas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | must | You | a great sorceress | tree rules |
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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