The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 4

It never hurt him, however, and Dorothy would pick him up and set him upon his feet again, while he joined her in laughing merrily at his own mishap.

Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy · What happens: not hurt, pick up, set, join, laugh · To what, where: Dorothy, Toto, feet, walking, own mishap

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Dorothy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 hurt	advmod
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	3 hurt	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pick	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pick	cc
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pick	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pick	aux
11	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hurt	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pick	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 pick	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 set	cc
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pick	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 set	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	15 set	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 joined	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 joined	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 joined	nsubj
24	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 joined	obj
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 laughing	mark
27	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 joined	advcl
28	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	27 laughing	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 mishap	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mishap	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mishap	amod
32	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laughing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hurt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	past	Scarecrow	Dorothy			however property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
2	pick up	would	Dorothy	Toto				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	set	infinitive	Dorothy not said here	Dorothy	Dorothy's feet	again		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon foot=Destination
4	join	past	Dorothy	walking				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	laugh	gerund	Dorothy not said here		Dorothy's own mishap		merrily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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