The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 71
“Then, if you don’t mind, I’ll go with you,” said the Lion, “for my life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage.”
Who acts: you, Lion · What happens: not mind, go, say, be · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 mind | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mind | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mind | advmod |
| 8 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lion | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unbearable | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 unbearable | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 unbearable | obl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 unbearable | cop |
| 26 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 27 unbearable | advmod |
| 27 | unbearable | unbearable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 bit | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bit | det |
| 30 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 unbearable | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 courage | case |
| 32 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bit | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 unbearable | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 unbearable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | then | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | for my life; without a bit of courage; simply, unbearable property | 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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