The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 2

The Scarecrow told them there were wonderful thoughts in his head; but he would not say what they were because he knew no one could understand them but himself.

Who acts: Scarecrow, wonderful thoughts, Oz., friends, one · What happens: tell, be, not say, understand · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, wonderful thoughts, Oz., friends), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Scarecrow	det
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thoughts	amod
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thoughts	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 knew	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	cop
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 knew	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 understand	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 understand	aux
27	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knew	ccomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 understand	obj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 himself	cc
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 knew	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow		friends = friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	past	wonderful thoughts in Oz.'s head			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not say speech: assert	would	Oz.					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	friends = friend				know property	tree rules
5	understand	could	no one	friends = friend				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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