The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 102

To be sure, neither the Woodman nor the Scarecrow ever ate anything, but she was not made of tin nor straw, and could not live unless she was fed.

Who acts: Woodman · What happens: be, eat, not make, not live, feed · To what, where: anything, Woodman

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	To	to	PART	_	3 sure	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Woodman	punct
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Woodman	cc:preconj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woodman	det
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ate	nsubj
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 Scarecrow	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Scarecrow	det
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Woodman	conj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 ate	advmod
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 ate	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux:pass
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 made	advmod
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ate	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 tin	case
21	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 straw	cc
23	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tin	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 live	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 live	cc
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 live	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 live	advmod
28	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ate	conj
29	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	32 fed	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fed	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fed	aux:pass
32	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 live	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
2	eat	past	the Woodman nor the Scarecrow	anything	ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	not make	past · passive		Woodman		of tin nor straw	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	not live	could	the Woodman nor the Scarecrow not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feed a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Woodman			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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