The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 74
If it wasn’t for Dorothy I should never have had brains.
Who acts: axe, I · What happens: not be, not have · To what, where: brains
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 (axe, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 Dorothy | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Dorothy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Dorothy | cop |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Dorothy | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Dorothy | case |
| 6 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 had | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | aux |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | axe | for Dorothy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have | should · perfect | I | brains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
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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