The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 20
It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”
Who acts: head, you · What happens: be, have · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fortunate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | cop |
| 3 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Kansas | case |
| 5 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fortunate | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 have | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | parataxis |
| 9 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | head | for Kansas; fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | that | tree rules |
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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