The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 108
“He can’t hurt the straw.
Who acts: Toto · What happens: not hurt · To what, where: straw
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toto), 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 hurt | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 straw | det |
| 7 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt in a quote | can | Toto | the straw | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer straw=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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