The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 28
“Of course he’s stuffed,” replied Dorothy, who was still angry.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: stuff, reply, be · To what, where: man · 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 (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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 stuffed | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stuffed | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuffed | aux:pass |
| 6 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 replied | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuffed | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuffed | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Dorothy | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff in a quote | present · passive | man | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Dorothy | still | angry property | tree rules |
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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