The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 20
“No, but you tried to,” she retorted.
Who acts: you, beast · What happens: try, retort · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, beast), 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 | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 tried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 retorted | nsubj |
| 11 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | past | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | retort speech: other | past | beast | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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