The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 90
“We can do nothing for him,” said the Tin Woodman, sadly; “for he is much too heavy to lift.
Who acts: We, Tin Woodman, carpet · What happens: do, say, be, lift · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, Tin Woodman, carpet), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woodman | det |
| 12 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Woodman | compound |
| 13 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sadly | punct |
| 15 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 13 Woodman | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 heavy | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 heavy | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 heavy | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heavy | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 heavy | cop |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 heavy | advmod |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 heavy | advmod |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 lift | mark |
| 25 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 heavy | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | We | nothing | for carpet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | carpet | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lift in a quote | to-infinitive | carpet not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: 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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