The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 52

“For,” he said, “if I should get caught in the rain, and rust again, I would need the oil-can badly.”

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: say, catch, rust, need · To what, where: Scarecrow, rain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	_	6 said	punct
2	For	for	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 For	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 For	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 caught	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 caught	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 caught	aux
12	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 caught	aux:pass
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 rain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rain	det
16	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rust	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rust	cc
19	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 rust	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 need	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 need	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 need	aux
24	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rust	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 can	det
26	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 can	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 oil	punct
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 need	conj
29	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 can	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Scarecrow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	catch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should · passive		Scarecrow	the rain		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	rust in a quote	infinitive				again	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	need in a quote	would	Scarecrow				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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