The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 69
“Certainly; that is why I know it,” returned the Scarecrow.
Who acts: that, Dorothy · What happens: be, know, return · To what, where: daylight, 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 (that, Dorothy), 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 | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 why | advmod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 why | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 why | cop |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 know | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 returned | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Scarecrow | det |
| 14 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | certainly, why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Dorothy | daylight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | return | past | 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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