The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 184
“I haven’t the heart to harm even a Witch,” remarked the Tin Woodman; “but if you go I certainly shall go with you.”
Who acts: Tin, you · What happens: harm, remark, go · To what, where: Witch · 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 (Tin, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 remarked | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 heart | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 harm | mark |
| 8 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 heart | acl |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 Witch | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Witch | det |
| 11 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harm | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tin | det |
| 16 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 remarked | obj |
| 17 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tin | flat |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 remarked | parataxis |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 go | nsubj |
| 25 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | ccomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harm in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tin not said here | a Witch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus witch=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | present · perfect | the Tin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | shall | the Tin = tin | with you; certainly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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