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title: It was fortunate the Tin Woodman had no heart at that moment, for it… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It was fortunate the Tin Woodman had no heart at that moment, for it would have beat loud and fast from terror. Who acts: monster, Tin Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 139

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It was fortunate the Tin Woodman had no heart at that moment, for it would have beat loud and fast from terror.

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**Who acts:** monster, Tin Woodman · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** heart, beat

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster, Tin Woodman), 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:pg55:13:139
# text = It was fortunate the Tin Woodman had no heart at that moment, for it would have beat loud and fast from terror.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | monster |  |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Tin Woodman | no heart |  |  | moment |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | would | monster | beat |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient |

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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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