The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 43
“It is kind of you to wear that,” said Boq.
Who acts: dress, Boq · What happens: be, wear, say · To what, where: kind · 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 (dress, Boq), 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 | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wear | mark |
| 8 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kind | acl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wear | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Boq | Boq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | dress | kind | of you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear in a quote | to-infinitive | Boq not said here | kind | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Boq | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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