The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 3
When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had owned when he was made of flesh.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, Woodman, heart · What happens: walk, feel, rattle around, tell, discover, be · To what, where: heart, breast, Dorothy, kinder tender heart, one, Woodman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, Woodman, heart), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woodman | det |
| 3 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Woodman | compound |
| 4 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 felt | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | obj |
| 11 | rattling | rattle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 heart | acl |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 rattling | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 breast | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 breast | nmod:poss |
| 15 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rattling | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 discovered | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 discovered | aux |
| 23 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 told | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 discovered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 heart | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 heart | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 heart | det |
| 28 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 heart | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 more | cc |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 kinder | conj |
| 31 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heart | compound |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 discovered | advcl |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heart | nmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 owned | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 owned | aux |
| 38 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 one | acl:relcl |
| 39 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 made | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 made | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 made | aux:pass |
| 42 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 owned | advcl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 flesh | case |
| 44 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 made | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the Tin Woodman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Woodman | Woodman's heart | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rattle around | gerund | Woodman's heart not said here | Woodman's breast | around property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Woodman | Dorothy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | discover | past · perfect | Woodman | heart | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | Woodman not said here | a kinder tender heart | than the one | tree rules | |||
| 7 | own | past · perfect | Woodman | the one not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ||||
| 8 | make | past · passive | Woodman | of flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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