The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 73

“I’m not feeling well,” said the Scarecrow, with a smile, “for it is very tedious being perched up here night and day to scare away crows.”

Who acts: Scarecrow, smile · What happens: not feel, say, be, perch up, scare away · To what, where: crows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, smile), 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	_	5 feeling	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 feeling	nsubj
3	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 feeling	advmod
5	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Scarecrow	det
11	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smile	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 smile	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 smile	det
15	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Scarecrow	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 perched	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 perched	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 tedious	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tedious	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tedious	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 tedious	advmod
22	tedious	tedious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 perched	advcl
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 perched	aux:pass
24	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 perched	compound:prt
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 perched	advmod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perched	obl:unmarked
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 day	cc
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 night	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 scare	mark
31	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 perched	advcl
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 scare	advmod
33	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 scare	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel in a quote	present · progressive	the Scarecrow and a smile = scarecrow				well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow and a smile					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	smile				tedious property	tree rules
4	perch up in a quote	gerund · passive	the Scarecrow and a smile not said here		here	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»
5	scare away in a quote	to-infinitive	the Scarecrow and a smile not said here	crows			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crow=Experiencer

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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