The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 8
She offered a piece to the Scarecrow, but he refused.
Who acts: country, Dorothy · What happens: offer, refuse · To what, where: piece, 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 (country, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Scarecrow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refused | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 refused | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 refused | nsubj |
| 11 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 offered | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | country | a piece | to the Scarecrow goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to scarecrow=Goal | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | Dorothy | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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