The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 59
“I hope so,” said Dorothy earnestly, “since you seem anxious to have them.”
Who acts: Dorothy, you · What happens: hope, say, seem, have · To what, where: brains · 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 (Dorothy, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 hope | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 8 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 seem | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seem | nsubj |
| 14 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seem | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anxious | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | Dorothy | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | earnestly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | you | anxious property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | brains = brain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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