The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 132
“For,” he said to himself, “if it is the head, I am sure I shall not be given a heart, since a head has no heart of its own and therefore cannot feel for me.
Who acts: Woodman, room, head · What happens: say, be, not give, have, not feel · To what, where: Woodman, head, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, room, head), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 head | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 head | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 head | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sure | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 given | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 given | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 given | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 given | aux:pass |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 given | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 28 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 31 has | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 head | det |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 given | parataxis |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 heart | det |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 own | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 own | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 heart | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 feel | cc |
| 38 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 41 feel | advmod |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 feel | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 feel | advmod |
| 41 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 has | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 feel | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Woodman | Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | room | the head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Woodman | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not give in a quote | shall · passive | Woodman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient heart=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | a head | no heart of room's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not feel in a quote | can | a head not said here | for Woodman; therefore property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=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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