The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 13
“I cannot imagine,” replied the Scarecrow; “but we can go and see.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, we · What happens: not imagine, reply, go, see · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, we), 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 | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Scarecrow | det |
| 10 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imagine | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine in a quote | can | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | can | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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