The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 98
“I understand how you feel,” said the little girl, who was truly sorry for him.
Who acts: I, you, little girl · What happens: understand, feel, say, 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 (I, you, little girl), 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 | _ | 3 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 feel | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 understand | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 understand | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorry | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sorry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sorry | cop |
| 16 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 17 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sorry | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the little girl | for head; sorry, truly 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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