The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 8

“I should certainly weep if you killed a poor deer, and then my jaws would rust again.”

Who acts: Lion, you, jaws · What happens: weep, kill, rust · To what, where: poor deer

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 (Lion, you, jaws), 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 weep	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 weep	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 weep	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 weep	advmod
5	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 killed	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 killed	nsubj
8	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 weep	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 deer	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deer	amod
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rust	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rust	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 rust	advmod
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 jaws	nmod:poss
16	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rust	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 rust	aux
18	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 weep	conj
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 rust	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 weep	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 weep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep in a quote	should	the Lion = lion			certainly property	tree rules
2	kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	a poor deer			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
3	rust in a quote	would	my jaws		then; again		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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