The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 99
“I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, happiness · What happens: take, return, not make, be · To what, where: heart, Tin Woodman, one, best thing, world · 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 (Scarecrow, happiness), 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Woodman | det |
| 11 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Woodman | compound |
| 12 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 brains | case |
| 16 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obl |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | parataxis |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thing | cc |
| 24 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thing | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 thing | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 thing | det |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 thing | amod |
| 28 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thing | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | shall | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | the heart | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent heart=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the Tin Woodman | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not make in a quote | present · do-support | one | for brains; happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent one=Product for brain=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | happiness | the best thing | 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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