The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 96
If anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn’t matter, for I can’t feel it.
Who acts: anyone, it, I · What happens: tread, stick, not matter, not feel · To what, where: toes, pin
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 (anyone, it, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 treads | mark |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 treads | nsubj |
| 3 | treads | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 toes | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 toes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 treads | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 sticks | cc |
| 8 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 treads | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pin | det |
| 10 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticks | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sticks | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 treads | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 matter | advmod |
| 17 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feel | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 feel | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 feel | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 feel | advmod |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 matter | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread a condition, not said to happen | present | anyone | my toes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stick | present | anyone not said here | a pin | into me | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme into i=Destination | |||
| 3 | not matter | present · do-support | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not feel | can | I | pin | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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