The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 89
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, Lion · What happens: know, have, take, not be, be · To what, where: heart, great care · 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 (Tin Woodman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Woodman | compound |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 13 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 care | amod |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 cruel | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cruel | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cruel | cop |
| 21 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 took | advcl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 unkind | cc |
| 23 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cruel | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 anything | case |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 unkind | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Tin Woodman | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Lion | no heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Lion | great care | therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Lion not said here | to anything | 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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