The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 18

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big beast like you, to bite a poor little dog!”

Who acts: You · What happens: be, bite · To what, where: poor little dog

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ashamed	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ashamed	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	5 ashamed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ashamed	cop
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 yourself	case
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 ashamed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beast	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beast	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beast	amod
11	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ashamed	obl
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 beast	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bite	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bite	mark
16	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ashamed	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dog	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dog	amod
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bite	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 ashamed	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	ought	You					of yourself; a big beast like you obl; ashamed property	tree rules
2	bite	to-infinitive	You not said here	a poor little dog					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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