The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 36

So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.

Who acts: legs, Scarecrow · What happens: oil, move, thank, seem · To what, where: legs, polite creature

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 oiled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 oiled	nsubj
3	oiled	oil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 oiled	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 move	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 move	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 move	aux
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 oiled	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 move	obj
11	freely	freely	ADV	_	9 move	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thanked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thanked	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thanked	nsubj
15	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 oiled	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thanked	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 thanked	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 again	cc
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 again	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 release	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 release	nmod:poss
22	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thanked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 seemed	case
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thanked	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 creature	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 polite	advmod
29	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 creature	amod
30	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grateful	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 grateful	cc
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 grateful	advmod
34	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seemed	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 oiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	oil	past	legs = leg	Scarecrow's legs				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Destination
2	move	could	Scarecrow	legs = leg			freely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	thank speech: thank	past	Scarecrow		legs = leg	again	for Scarecrow's release	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for release=Attribute
4	seem	past	Scarecrow	a polite creature				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=Attribute

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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