The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 40

“And I should have lived a coward forever,” declared the Lion, “and no beast in all the forest would have had a good word to say to me.”

Who acts: I, Lion · What happens: live, declare, have, say · To what, where: good word, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lion), 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 lived	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 lived	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lived	aux
6	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 declared	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coward	det
8	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	nsubj
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
12	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lion	det
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beast	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 beast	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beast	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 beast	det
19	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Lion	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 forest	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 forest	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beast	nmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 had	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	aux
26	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 declared	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 word	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 word	amod
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 say	mark
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 word	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 say	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	should · perfect	I			forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have in a quote	would · perfect	the Lion	a good word			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
4	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	a good word not said here	me		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient

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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