The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 55
“That is a first-rate idea,” said the Lion.
Who acts: That, first rate idea · What happens: be, say · To what, where: first rate idea · 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, first rate idea), 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 | _ | 8 idea | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 idea | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 idea | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 idea | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 idea | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| 7 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 idea | compound |
| 8 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 idea | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 idea | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lion | det |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a first rate idea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a first rate idea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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