The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 80
But the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, not being made of flesh, were not troubled by the scent of the flowers.
Who acts: scent · What happens: not make, not trouble, scent · To what, where: Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, flowers
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scent), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 troubled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 troubled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Woodman | det |
| 6 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Woodman | compound |
| 7 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 made | advmod |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Scarecrow | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flesh | case |
| 13 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Scarecrow | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 troubled | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 troubled | advmod |
| 17 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 scent | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scent | det |
| 20 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 troubled | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flowers | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flowers | det |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scent | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | gerund · passive | the Tin Woodman | of flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not trouble | past · passive | the scent of the flowers | the Scarecrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | scent | the flowers | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=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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