The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 54
“It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy.
Who acts: Scarecrow, great sorrow · What happens: be, make · To what, where: great sorrow, life
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 (Scarecrow, great sorrow), 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 | _ | 6 sorrow | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sorrow | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrow | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sorrow | amod |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 makes | cc |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrow | acl:relcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 unhappy | advmod |
| 13 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Scarecrow | my great sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | my great sorrow not said here | my life | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
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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