The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 44
“I am very grateful to you, and shall never forget your kindness.”
Who acts: happy Woodman · What happens: be, not forget · To what, where: you, kindness
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 (happy Woodman), 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 grateful | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grateful | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grateful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 grateful | advmod |
| 5 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 grateful | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forget | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forget | cc |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 forget | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 forget | advmod |
| 12 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grateful | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forget | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grateful | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the happy Woodman = woodman | you | grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not forget in a quote | shall | the happy Woodman = woodman not said here | your kindness | tree rules |
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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