The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 75
“Ah,” said the Tin Woodman sadly, “I wish I had a heart to beat.”
Who acts: Tin Woodman · What happens: say, wish, have, beat · To what, where: heart · 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), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Woodman | det |
| 7 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Woodman | compound |
| 8 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 beat | mark |
| 19 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 heart | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | sadly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | the Tin Woodman = woodman | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | the Tin Woodman = woodman | a heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 4 | beat in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman = woodman not said here | a heart not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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