The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 36
“Because that isn’t the way we Lions do these things,” he replied.
Who acts: that, we, Lion · What happens: be, do, reply · To what, where: way, things · 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 (that, we, Lion), 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 | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 way | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | n’t | n't | CCONJ | _ | 7 way | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | advcl |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | Lions | Lion | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | we | this things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Lion | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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