The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 22
I am afraid I shall never have any brains, after all!”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not have · To what, where: brains
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | ccomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 brains | det |
| 9 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 have | parataxis |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have | shall | I | any brains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
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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