The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 134
A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much.
Who acts: baby · What happens: have, not know · To what, where: brains
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | parataxis |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 know | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a baby | brains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | baby | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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