The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 56
Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.’
Who acts: Brains, matter · What happens: be, have · To what, where: only things, world, one crow
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 (Brains, matter), 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 | Brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 things | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 things | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 things | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 worth | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 matter | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 things | appos |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 crow | mark |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 crow | nummod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 crow | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crow | det |
| 18 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 matter | acl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 man | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crow | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Brains | the only things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Brains not said here | this world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | no matter not said here | a one crow or a man | 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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