The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 148
Oz gave a low growl at this, but said, gruffly: “If you indeed desire a heart, you must earn it.”
Who acts: Oz, you · What happens: give, say, desire, earn · To what, where: low growl, this, 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 (Oz, you), 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 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 growl | det |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 growl | amod |
| 5 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gruffly | punct |
| 12 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 earn | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 earn | punct |
| 15 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 desire | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 desire | nsubj |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 desire | advmod |
| 18 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 earn | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 desire | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 desire | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 earn | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 earn | aux |
| 24 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 earn | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 earn | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Oz | a low growl | this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent growl=Theme at this=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Oz not said here | gruffly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | desire a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | a heart | indeed property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heart=Theme | |||
| 4 | earn in a quote | must | you | heart | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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