The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 74

“They really are,” said the Lion, “but that doesn’t make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.”

Who acts: Dorothy, Lion, that · What happens: be, say, not make, know · To what, where: braver, Lion, 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 (Dorothy, Lion, that), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 are	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 are	advmod
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lion	det
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 make	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 make	advmod
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 braver	det
19	braver	braver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 long	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 said	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 know	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 long	advcl
27	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 know	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	31 coward	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 coward	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 coward	det
31	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 know	ccomp
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 unhappy	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 unhappy	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 unhappy	cop
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 coward	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	Dorothy				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Lion			long property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not make in a quote	present · do-support	that	any braver	the Lion = lion		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary braver=Product
4	know in a quote	present	the Lion = lion	the Lion = lion			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a coward			tree rules
6	is in a quote	shall	the Lion = lion	a coward not said here		unhappy 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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