The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 91
When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn’t mind so much.”
Who acts: Oz, I · What happens: give, need · To what, where: heart, me, mind
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 (Oz, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 gives | mark |
| 2 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 need | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gives | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 course | case |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | n’t | n't | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mind | det |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 need | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Oz | a heart of course | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient heart=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | present | I | n't mind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mind=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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