The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 86
“Why, don’t you know?” she returned, in surprise.
Who acts: you, Dorothy · What happens: not do, know, return · To what, where: surprise · 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 (you, Dorothy), 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 | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 do | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | advcl |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surprise | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | return | past | Dorothy | surprise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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