The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 83
“They are, indeed,” said the Scarecrow, “and I am thankful I am made of straw and cannot be easily damaged.
Who acts: people, Scarecrow · What happens: be, say, make, not damage · To what, where: Scarecrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 are | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 are | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Scarecrow | det |
| 10 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thankful | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 thankful | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thankful | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 thankful | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thankful | cop |
| 16 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 thankful | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 straw | case |
| 21 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 damaged | cc |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 damaged | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 damaged | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 damaged | aux:pass |
| 26 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 27 damaged | advmod |
| 27 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 made | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | people | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · passive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | of straw | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | not damage in a quote | can · passive | easily property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
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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