The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 31
“But I shall have to cut a hole in your breast, so I can put your heart in the right place.
Who acts: little man · What happens: have, cut, put · To what, where: hole, breast, heart, right place
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 have | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 breast | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breast | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 put | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 place | amod |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | the little man = man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut in a quote | to-infinitive | the little man = man not said here | a hole | your breast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | |||
| 3 | put in a quote | can | the little man = man | your heart | the right place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme in place=Destination |
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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