The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 64
“But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: have, try · To what, where: brains, heart
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heart | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 heart | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tried | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 tried | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 having | punct |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 tried | advcl |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tried | obj |
| 18 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 tried | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 have | advmod |
| 23 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 24 have | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | the Woodman = woodman | brains | a heart obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | try in a quote | past | the Woodman = woodman not said here | brains = brain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer both=Result | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | should | the Woodman = woodman | a heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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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