The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 10

“I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.”

Who acts: Woodman, you, it · What happens: have, know, be, help, need, happen · To what, where: heart, those, friend, mouse

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, you, it), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 heart	det
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 careful	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 careful	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 careful	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 careful	cop
13	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 careful	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 those	det:predet
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 help	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 need	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 need	aux
20	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 those	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 friend	det
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 need	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 happens	punct
24	even	even	ADV	_	27 happens	advmod
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 happens	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 happens	nsubj
27	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 help	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	32 mouse	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 mouse	cop
30	only	only	ADV	_	32 mouse	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mouse	det
32	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 happens	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the Woodman = woodman	no heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	the Woodman = woodman		careful property	tree rules
4	help in a quote	to-infinitive	the Woodman = woodman not said here	those		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary
5	need in a quote	may		a friend		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme
6	happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	it			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a mouse		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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