The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 115
The little girl we dare not harm, nor the dog she carries in her arms.
Who acts: little girl, dog · What happens: not dare, carry · To what, where: harm, arms
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 (little girl, dog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 5 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dare | advmod |
| 7 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dare | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carries | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 carries | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 13 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 arms | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carries | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | present | the little girl | harm | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | the dog | dog's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location |
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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