The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 42
“‘Why, he is a man,’ said the other, and I quite agreed with him.
Who acts: farmer, man · What happens: be, say, agree · To what, where: man, other · 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 (farmer, man), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Why | punct |
| 3 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 man | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Why | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agreed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 agreed | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 agreed | nsubj |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 agreed | advmod |
| 18 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 agreed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | farmer | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | a man | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree in a quote | past | the farmer = farmer | with farmer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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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