The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 4
“Truly I should be ungrateful if I failed to mourn for the man who gave me my lovely heart.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, man · What happens: be, fail, not mourn, give · To what, where: lovely heart, Tin Woodman
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. 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, 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 | _ | 6 ungrateful | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 ungrateful | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ungrateful | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ungrateful | cop |
| 6 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 failed | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 failed | nsubj |
| 9 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ungrateful | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 mourn | mark |
| 11 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 failed | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mourn | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heart | amod |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ungrateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | the Tin Woodman = woodman | truly, ungrateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the Tin Woodman = woodman | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not mourn in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman = woodman not said here | for the man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for man=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | the man | my lovely heart | the Tin Woodman = woodman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient 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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