The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 43

“We must be very careful here,” said the kind-hearted Woodman, “or we may hurt these pretty little people so they will never get over it.”

Who acts: We, hearted Woodman, people · What happens: be, say, hurt, not get · To what, where: little people, mishap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, hearted Woodman, people), 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	_	6 careful	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 careful	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 careful	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 careful	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 careful	advmod
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 careful	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 careful	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 careful	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Woodman	det
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hearted	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 kind	punct
14	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Woodman	amod
15	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hurt	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 hurt	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 hurt	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hurt	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hurt	aux
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 people	det
23	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	24 little	advmod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hurt	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 get	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 get	advmod
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hurt	parataxis
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 get	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 hurt	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 hurt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	We		here	careful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the hearted Woodman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hurt in a quote	may	we	this little people			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient
4	not get in a quote	future	people		mishap		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination

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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