The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 40
“‘This fellow will scare the crows fast enough,’ said the farmer.
Who acts: fellow, farmer · What happens: scare, say · To what, where: crows · 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 (fellow, farmer), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 scare | punct |
| 3 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fellow | det |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scare | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 scare | aux |
| 6 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crows | det |
| 8 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scare | obj |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 scare | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 scare | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 scare | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farmer | det |
| 15 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare in a quote | future | this fellow | the crows | fast property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crow=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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