The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 80
This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret.
Who acts: This, thing · What happens: make, be, not hurt, walk, weep · To what, where: Tin Woodman, living creature, several tears
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 (This, thing), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Woodman | det |
| 4 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Woodman | compound |
| 5 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 unhappy | advmod |
| 7 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 careful | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 careful | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 careful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 careful | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 careful | advmod |
| 13 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 unhappy | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hurt | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hurt | mark |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 careful | advcl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 creature | det |
| 18 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 creature | compound |
| 19 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 walked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 walked | cc |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 walked | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 walked | nsubj |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 27 wept | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wept | nsubj |
| 27 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 walked | conj |
| 28 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tears | amod |
| 29 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wept | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sorrow | case |
| 31 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tears | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 regret | cc |
| 33 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sorrow | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | the Tin Woodman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset woodman=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | thing | always, careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hurt | to-infinitive | thing not said here | any living creature | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Patient | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | thing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | weep | past | thing | several tears of sorrow and regret | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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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