The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 26
To think of your striking a stuffed man, like the poor Scarecrow!”
What happens: think, strike, stuff
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: 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 think | mark |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 man | nmod:poss |
| 5 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 man | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Scarecrow | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 Scarecrow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Scarecrow | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Scarecrow | amod |
| 13 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Scarecrow | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Scarecrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | of your stuffed man; like the poor Scarecrow | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stuff | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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