The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 8

However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.”

Who acts: you, bread · What happens: have, be, think · To what, where: brains

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 (you, bread), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 worth	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 worth	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worth	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 worth	cop
10	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lot	det
12	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worth	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 bother	case
14	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lot	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	17 able	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 worth	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 think	mark
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	properly	properly	ADV	_	19 think	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	brains	however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	is	present	bread		worth property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	bread not said here		able property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	bread not said here		properly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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