The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 23
But the Scarecrow said, “We cannot fly, that is certain.
Who acts: Scarecrow, We, that · What happens: say, not fly, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. 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, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fly | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fly | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fly | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fly | advmod |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 certain | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 certain | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | cop |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fly | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not fly in a quote | can | We | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | certain 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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