The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 35
“Let me try it first,” said the Scarecrow, “for it doesn’t hurt me to get thrown about.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, tree · What happens: let, try, say, not hurt, throw about · To what, where: Scarecrow, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, tree), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 try | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 try | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurt | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurt | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 hurt | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hurt | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hurt | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 hurt | advmod |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hurt | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 thrown | mark |
| 21 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thrown | aux:pass |
| 22 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hurt | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 thrown | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurt | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | infinitive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here | tree | first property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not hurt in a quote | present · do-support | tree | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | throw about in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | tree not said here | about property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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