The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 78

“Thank you very much,” said the Scarecrow, when he had been set down on the ground.

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: thank, say, set down · To what, where: you, Toto, ground · 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), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 Thank	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	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 set	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 set	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 set	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 set	aux:pass
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Scarecrow	acl:relcl
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	set down	past · perfect · passive		Toto		the ground	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination

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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