The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 150

“Why, as for that,” answered Oz, “I think you are wrong to want a heart.

Who acts: that, I, Oz · What happens: answer, think, be, want · To what, where: Oz, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, I, Oz), 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	_	9 answered	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 answered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 that	case
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wrong	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wrong	cop
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 think	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 want	mark
19	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wrong	csubj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 heart	det
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 want	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	that		Oz		tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Oz			wrong property	tree rules
4	want in a quote	to-infinitive		a heart			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heart=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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