The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 60
“Oh, yes; I am anxious,” returned the Scarecrow.
Who acts: Dorothy, anxious · What happens: be, return · To what, where: Scarecrow
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, anxious), 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 | _ | 8 anxious | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 anxious | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 anxious | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 anxious | cop |
| 8 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 anxious | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 anxious | punct |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Scarecrow | det |
| 13 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Dorothy | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | anxious | the Scarecrow | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme |
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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