The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 94

It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart.

Who acts: danger, I, greatest loss · What happens: be, undergo, stand, have, think, know · To what, where: terrible thing, greatest loss, loss · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (danger, I, greatest loss), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 undergo	mark
7	undergo	undergo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stood	cc
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 stood	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stood	ccomp
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 time	acl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 loss	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 loss	det
23	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 loss	amod
24	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 loss	nsubj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 known	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 known	aux
27	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 loss	acl:relcl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 loss	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 loss	det
30	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 think	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 loss	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	danger	a terrible thing				tree rules
2	undergo	to-infinitive						tree rules
3	stand	past	I		there	year		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past	I			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	know	past · perfect	I	the greatest loss not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
7	is a	past	the greatest loss	the loss			of my heart	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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