The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 60

“Perhaps,” said the Lion thoughtfully, “if I had no heart I should not be a coward.”

Who acts: Lion · What happens: say, have, not be · To what, where: heart, coward · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lion), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lion	det
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 heart	det
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 coward	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 coward	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 coward	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 coward	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 coward	det
21	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Lion		perhaps, thoughtfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the Lion = lion	no heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	not is a in a quote	should	the Lion = lion	a coward		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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