The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 7

“I cannot tell,” was the answer, “for I have never been to the Emerald City.

Who acts: I · What happens: not tell, be, not be · To what, where: answer · 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 (I), 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answer	csubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answer	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 City	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 City	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	21 City	case
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 City	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 City	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 City	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 City	cop
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 City	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 City	det
20	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 City	compound
21	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answer	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be speech: assert	past		the answer		tree rules
3	not is in a quote	present · perfect	I		for the Emerald City	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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