The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 15

“You see,” said the Cowardly Lion, with a whimper, “I haven’t the courage to keep tramping forever, without getting anywhere at all.”

Who acts: You, Cowardly Lion, courage · What happens: see, say, not have, keep, tramp, get · To what, where: courage, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Cowardly Lion, courage), 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	_	3 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lion	det
8	Cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Lion	amod
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whimper	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 whimper	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whimper	det
13	whimper	whimper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Lion	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 “	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 “	parataxis
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 have	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 courage	det
20	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 keep	mark
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 courage	acl
23	tramping	tramp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 keep	xcomp
24	forever	forever	ADV	_	23 tramping	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 getting	mark
27	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 tramping	conj
28	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 getting	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 getting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the Cowardly Lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not have in a quote	present	the Cowardly Lion = lion	the courage			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
4	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	the Cowardly Lion = lion not said here	the courage not said here			tree rules
5	tramp in a quote	gerund	the courage not said here			forever property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get in a quote	gerund	the courage not said here		all	anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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