The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 55
But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.”
Who acts: danger, heart · What happens: be, begin, beat
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 (danger, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 begins | cc |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 begins | advcl |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begins | nsubj |
| 9 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 beat | mark |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begins | xcomp |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 beat | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 begins | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | danger | there | whenever property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | present | my heart | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beat | to-infinitive | my heart not said here | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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