The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 67
“Good day,” said the Scarecrow, in a rather husky voice.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: say · To what, where: husky voice · 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Scarecrow | det |
| 8 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 voice | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 husky | advmod |
| 13 | husky | husky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | a husky voice | day | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
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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