The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 42
I’m sorry I had to put a patch on your breast, but it really couldn’t be helped.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, have, put, not help · To what, where: patch, breast
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | cop |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 patch | det |
| 9 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | on | on | 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 | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 helped | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 helped | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 helped | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 helped | advmod |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 helped | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 helped | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 helped | aux:pass |
| 20 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sorry | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | I not said here | a patch | your breast | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent patch=Theme on breast=Destination | |||
| 4 | not help | could · passive | patch | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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