The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 53

But the Scarecrow told her about everything, and turning to the dignified little Mouse, he said:

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: tell, turn, say · To what, where: Dorothy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow), 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	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Scarecrow	det
3	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 everything	case
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turning	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turning	cc
10	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 Mouse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mouse	det
13	dignified	dignified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Mouse	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Mouse	amod
15	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turning	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow	Dorothy	about everything	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about everything=Topic
2	turn	gerund	the Scarecrow not said here		to the dignified little Mouse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mouse=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Scarecrow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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