The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 95

“You see,” he continued confidentially, “I don’t mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt.

Who acts: You, Oz, Scarecrow · What happens: see, continue, not mind, stuff, not hurt · To what, where: legs, body, Scarecrow · 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, Oz, 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 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 continued	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 continued	nsubj
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	confidentially	confidentially	ADV	_	7 continued	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mind	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 mind	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 mind	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mind	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 mind	advmod
14	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 continued	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 legs	nmod:poss
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mind	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 arms	cc
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 legs	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 body	cc
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 legs	conj
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 stuffed	aux:pass
22	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 body	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hurt	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 hurt	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 hurt	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hurt	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hurt	advmod
28	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 hurt	aux:pass
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mind	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	continue	past	Oz		confidentially property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not mind in a quote	present · do-support	the Scarecrow = scarecrow	my legs and arms and body		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
4	stuff in a quote	gerund · passive		body not said here		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»
5	not hurt in a quote	can · passive		the Scarecrow = scarecrow		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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