The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 13
The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, “I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, you · What happens: listen, say, not understand, wish, leave, go back · To what, where: beautiful country, dry gray place, Kansas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 listened | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 understand | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 understand | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 understand | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 understand | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 understand | advmod |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 wish | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 understand | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 country | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 leave | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 28 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 place | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dry | punct |
| 30 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 place | amod |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 call | nsubj |
| 33 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 place | acl:relcl |
| 34 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 call | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 understand | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the Scarecrow | carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not understand in a quote | can | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | should | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | this beautiful country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | to the dry gray place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 7 | call in a quote | present | you | the dry gray place not said here | Kansas | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kansas=Recipient |
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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