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title: This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful no… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret. Who acts: This, thing. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 80

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This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret.

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**Who acts:** This, thing · **What happens:** make, be, not hurt, walk, weep · **To what, where:** Tin Woodman, living creature, several tears

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, thing), 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:pg55:8:80
# text = This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	along	along	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | This | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset woodman=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | thing |  |  |  |  | always, careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **hurt** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* | any living creature |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Patient |
| 4 | **walk** | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **weep** | past | thing | several tears of sorrow and regret |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |

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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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