The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 61
“But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world.”
Who acts: brains · What happens: not be · To what, where: best things, world
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 (brains), 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 | _ | 12 things | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 all | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 brains | det |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 things | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 things | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 things | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 things | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | all brains | the best things | the world | 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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