The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 52
“I do not know,” answered Boq gravely, “for I have never been there.
Who acts: Boq, girl · What happens: not know, answer, not be · 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, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:223): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Boq | Boq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 8 answered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 there | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 there | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 there | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 there | cop |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Boq | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Boq | gravely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present · perfect | the girl = girl | there property | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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