The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 76
“I see a little cottage at the right of us,” he said, “built of logs and branches.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: see, say, build · To what, where: little cottage, right · 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), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cottage | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cottage | amod |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 right | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 right | det |
| 9 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cottage | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 right | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 logs | case |
| 20 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 built | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 branches | cc |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 logs | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Dorothy | a little cottage | the right of us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build in a quote | participle | of logs and branches | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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