The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 9

“I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.”

Who acts: Dorothy, piece, straw, that · What happens: not be, say, be, paint, cut, eat · To what, where: lucky thing, mouth, hole, piece, Dorothy, shape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, piece, straw, that), 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 hungry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thing	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thing	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 not	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 not	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 thing	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 painted	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 painted	mark
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mouth	nmod:poss
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 painted	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 painted	aux:pass
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 painted	advmod
27	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cut	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cut	cc
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 cut	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 cut	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 cut	aux
33	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 painted	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hole	det
35	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cut	obl
38	so	so	ADV	_	41 eat	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 eat	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 eat	aux
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 cut	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 straw	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 straw	det
44	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 come	nsubj
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 stuffed	nsubj
46	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 stuffed	aux:pass
47	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 straw	acl:relcl
48	with	with	ADP	_	47 stuffed	obl
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 come	aux
50	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 eat	ccomp
51	out	out	ADV	_	50 come	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 spoil	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 spoil	cc
54	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 spoil	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 spoil	aux
56	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 shape	det
58	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 spoil	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 head	case
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 head	nmod:poss
61	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 shape	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 spoil	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	56 spoil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Dorothy			hungry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	piece	a lucky thing			tree rules
4	paint in a quote	present · passive		my mouth			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
5	cut a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	Dorothy	a hole	piece		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
6	eat in a quote	could	Dorothy				tree rules
7	stuff in a quote	present · passive		Dorothy			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
8	come out in a quote	would	the straw			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
9	spoil in a quote	would	that	the shape of my head			tree rules

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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