The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 139
It was fortunate the Tin Woodman had no heart at that moment, for it would have beat loud and fast from terror.
Who acts: monster, Tin Woodman · What happens: be, have · To what, where: heart, beat
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 (monster, Tin Woodman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fortunate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | cop |
| 3 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Woodman | det |
| 5 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Woodman | compound |
| 6 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | parataxis |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | parataxis |
| 18 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 have | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fast | cc |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 loud | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 terror | case |
| 23 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fast | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | monster | fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Tin Woodman | no heart | moment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | would | monster | beat | loud property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient |
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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