The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 87
For if I should kill another bug or beetle I should surely cry again, and crying rusts my jaws so that I cannot speak.”
Who acts: I · What happens: kill, cry, not speak · To what, where: bug, rusts · 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 (I), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 kill | mark |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 kill | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cry | advcl |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bug | det |
| 7 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 beetle | cc |
| 9 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bug | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cry | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cry | aux |
| 12 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 13 cry | advmod |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 cry | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 speak | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 speak | cc |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 speak | csubj |
| 18 | rusts | rust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crying | obj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 20 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crying | obj |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 speak | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 speak | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 speak | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 speak | advmod |
| 26 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cry | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill a condition, not said to happen | should | I | another bug or beetle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | should | I | again | surely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | rusts | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | can | I | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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