The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 9
But I am not afraid so long as I have my oil-can, and nothing can hurt the Scarecrow, while you bear upon your forehead the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss, and that will protect you from harm.”
Who acts: I, nothing, you, that, Good Witch · What happens: not be, have, hurt, bear, protect, mark · To what, where: Scarecrow, you, kiss
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, nothing, you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 afraid | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | advcl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 can | nmod:poss |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 can | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 oil | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hurt | cc |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 hurt | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurt | aux |
| 19 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Scarecrow | det |
| 21 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hurt | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bear | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 bear | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 bear | nsubj |
| 25 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurt | parataxis |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 forehead | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 28 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bear | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mark | det |
| 30 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forehead | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kiss | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Witch | det |
| 33 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Witch | amod |
| 34 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Witch | case |
| 36 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mark | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 protect | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 protect | cc |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 protect | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 protect | aux |
| 41 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 bear | conj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 protect | obj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 harm | case |
| 44 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 protect | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | afraid, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurt | can | nothing | the Scarecrow | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scarecrow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bear | present | you | upon your forehead and the mark of the Good Witch's kiss | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | protect | future | that | you | from harm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from harm=Theme | |||
| 6 | mark | the Good Witch's kiss | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | kiss | the Good Witch | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=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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