The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 21

To be sure, there were several patches on him, but the tinsmiths did a good job, and as the Woodman was not a vain man he did not mind the patches at all.

Who acts: several patches, tinsmiths, Woodman, vain man · What happens: be, do, not be, not mind · To what, where: good job, vain man, patches, all

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several patches, tinsmiths, Woodman, vain man), 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	To	to	PART	_	3 sure	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 patches	amod
8	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 patches	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 did	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tinsmiths	det
14	tinsmiths	tinsmith	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 job	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 job	amod
18	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mind	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mind	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 man	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Woodman	det
23	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 man	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 man	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 man	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mind	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 mind	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 mind	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 mind	advmod
32	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 patches	det
34	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 mind	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 mind	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
2	be	past	several patches on Woodman		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	the tinsmiths	a good job			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
4	not is a	past	the Woodman	a vain man			tree rules
5	not mind	past · do-support	a vain man	the patches	all		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=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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