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title: “I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who ma… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.” Who acts: Woodman, you, it. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 10

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“I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.”

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**Who acts:** Woodman, you, it · **What happens:** have, know, be, help, need, happen · **To what, where:** heart, those, friend, mouse

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, you, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:11:10
# text = “I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Woodman *= woodman* | no heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Woodman *= woodman* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Woodman *= woodman* *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **need** *in a quote* | may |  | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme |
| 6 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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