The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 62

“How can I help being a humbug,” he said, “when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can’t be done?

Who acts: Lion, people, everybody · What happens: help, be, say, make, do, know · To what, where: humbug, Lion, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, people, everybody), 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 help	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 help	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 humbug	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 humbug	det
8	humbug	humbug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 help	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 done	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 done	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 make	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 people	det:predet
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	nsubj
19	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 done	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 knows	obj
24	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 knows	nsubj
25	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 things	acl:relcl
26	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 done	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 done	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 done	aux:pass
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help in a quote	can	Lion		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	gerund		a humbug	tree rules
3	say speech: ask	past	Lion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	present	all people	Lion	tree rules
5	do in a quote	infinitive	Lion not said here	things	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
6	know in a quote	present	everybody	things	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
7	not do in a quote	can · passive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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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