The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 109

“We dare not harm this little girl,” he said to them, “for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil.

Who acts: We, arm, Power, that · What happens: not harm, say, protect, be · To what, where: little girl, Monkeys, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, arm, Power, that), 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 harm	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 harm	nsubj
3	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harm	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 harm	advmod
5	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 girl	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harm	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 harm	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 harm	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 protected	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 protected	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 protected	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 protected	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 protected	aux:pass
20	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 Power	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Power	det
23	Power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 protected	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Good	case
25	Good	Good	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Power	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 greater	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 greater	cc
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 greater	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 greater	cop
30	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 protected	parataxis
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 Power	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Power	det
33	Power	Power	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 greater	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Evil	case
35	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Power	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not harm in a quote	dare	We	this little girl			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	arm		Monkeys = monkey		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	protect in a quote	present · passive	the Power of Good	girl			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4	is in a quote	present	that			than the Power of Evil; great property	tree rules

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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