The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 5

“I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life.

Who acts: flowers, such little things · What happens: think, come, kill, save · To what, where: flowers, such small animals

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, such little things), 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	_	5 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 thought	advmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 thought	obl:unmarked
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 terrible	cc
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 big	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
12	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 things	nmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	parataxis
19	near	near	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 killing	mark
21	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 killing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saved	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saved	cc
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 animals	amod
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 animals	amod
27	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 saved	nsubj:pass
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 mice	case
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 animals	nmod
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 saved	aux
31	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thought	conj
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 life	nmod:poss
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saved	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	flowers = flower	flowers = flower	always, big property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	past	such little things as flowers		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill in a quote	gerund	such little things as flowers not said here	flowers = flower		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	save in a quote	present · perfect · passive		such small animals as mice		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme

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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