The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 81

“That was too bad,” said Dorothy, “but really I think we were lucky in not doing these little people more harm than breaking a cow’s leg and a church.

Who acts: That, Dorothy, we · What happens: be, say, think, not do, break · To what, where: little people, leg · 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 (That, Dorothy, we), 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 bad	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bad	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bad	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 think	cc
13	really	really	ADV	_	15 think	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
15	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 lucky	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lucky	cop
18	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 think	ccomp
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 doing	mark
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 doing	advmod
21	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 lucky	advcl
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 people	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 doing	obj
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 harm	amod
26	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doing	obj
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 breaking	mark
28	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 lucky	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cow	det
30	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leg	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 cow	case
32	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breaking	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 church	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 church	det
35	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leg	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	That		bad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	Dorothy			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	we		lucky property	tree rules
5	not do in a quote	gerund	we not said here	this little people		tree rules
6	break in a quote	gerund	we not said here	a cow's leg and a church		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient

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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