The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 51
“‘I wonder if that farmer thought to fool me in this clumsy manner.
Who acts: crows, farmer · What happens: wonder, think, fool · To what, where: crows, clumsy manner
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 (crows, 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 | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wonder | nsubj |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 thought | mark |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 farmer | det |
| 7 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonder | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fool | mark |
| 10 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fool | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 manner | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 manner | det |
| 14 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 manner | amod |
| 15 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fool | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | crows = crow | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | that farmer | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fool in a quote | to-infinitive | that farmer not said here | crows = crow | this clumsy manner | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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