The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 89

You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all,” he answered sadly.

Who acts: You, I, Oz · What happens: see, stuff, have, answer · To what, where: I, brains, all · 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 (You, I, Oz), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stuffed	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stuffed	aux:pass
6	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 see	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 brains	det
12	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 brains	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
19	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	18 answered	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stuff	present · passive		I			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	have	present	I	no brains	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
4	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	Oz			sadly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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