The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 20
“Oz was not such a bad Wizard, after all,” said the Tin Woodman, as he felt his heart rattling around in his breast.
Who acts: Oz, Tin Woodman, Woodman · What happens: not be, say, feel, rattle around · To what, where: bad Wizard, heart, breast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz, Tin Woodman, 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 | _ | 8 Wizard | punct |
| 2 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wizard | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Wizard | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 Wizard | advmod |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 Wizard | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Wizard | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Wizard | amod |
| 8 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Wizard | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Woodman | det |
| 16 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Woodman | compound |
| 17 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 felt | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obj |
| 24 | rattling | rattle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 felt | advcl |
| 25 | around | around | ADV | _ | 24 rattling | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 breast | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 breast | nmod:poss |
| 28 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rattling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wizard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | past | Oz | such bad Wizard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | after all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Woodman | Woodman's heart | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rattle around | gerund | Woodman not said here | Woodman's breast | around property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location |
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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