The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 22
“I haven’t the faintest idea,” said the Tin Woodman, and the Lion shook his shaggy mane and looked thoughtful.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, Lion · What happens: not have, say, shake, look · To what, where: faintest idea, shaggy mane · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 have | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 6 | faintest | faint | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 idea | amod |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woodman | det |
| 12 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Woodman | compound |
| 13 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shook | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shook | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lion | det |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shook | nsubj |
| 18 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mane | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mane | amod |
| 21 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shook | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shook | conj |
| 24 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 looked | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present | the Tin Woodman = woodman | the faintest idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | the Lion | Lion's shaggy mane | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mane=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | past | the Lion not said here | thoughtful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/22/