The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 133
But if it is the lovely Lady I shall beg hard for a heart, for all ladies are themselves said to be kindly hearted.”
Who acts: room, I · What happens: be, beg, say, heart · To what, where: lovely Lady, ladies · 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 (room, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 beg | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 Lady | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Lady | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lady | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lady | det |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Lady | amod |
| 7 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 beg | advcl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 beg | aux |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beg | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ladies | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 ladies | det |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 said | obl |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux:pass |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 beg | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hearted | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hearted | aux:pass |
| 24 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 25 hearted | advmod |
| 25 | hearted | heart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 said | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | room | the lovely Lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | shall | I | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | ladies = lady | for all ladies | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | heart | to-infinitive · passive | kindly property | 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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