The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 11

But he had no arms at all, and, seeing this, the Scarecrow did not fear that so helpless a creature could prevent them from climbing the hill.

Who acts: Scarecrow, seeing, creature · What happens: have, see, not fear, prevent, climb · To what, where: arms, all, this, that, hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, seeing, creature), 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	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 arms	det
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 arms	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fear	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 fear	csubj
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 seeing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Scarecrow	det
15	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 seeing	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fear	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 fear	advmod
18	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fear	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 helpless	advmod
21	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fear	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 creature	det
23	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prevent	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 prevent	aux
25	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fear	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 prevent	obj
27	from	from	SCONJ	_	28 climbing	mark
28	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 prevent	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hill	det
30	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 climbing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarecrow	no arms	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	see	gerund		this			tree rules
3	not fear	past · do-support	seeing	that		helpless property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	prevent	could	a creature	arms = arm			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme
5	climb	gerund	a creature not said here	the hill			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=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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