The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 13
But the Scarecrow did not mind how long it took him to fill the basket, for it enabled him to keep away from the fire, as he feared a spark might get into his straw and burn him up.
Who acts: Scarecrow, it, Lion, spark · What happens: not mind, take, fill, enable, keep away, fear · To what, where: Lion, basket, fire, straw · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, it, Lion, spark), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 mind | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 mind | advmod |
| 6 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 took | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fill | mark |
| 13 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 basket | det |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fill | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enabled | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 enabled | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 enabled | nsubj |
| 19 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 enabled | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 enabled | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 keep | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 feared | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 feared | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 feared | nsubj |
| 30 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 enabled | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 spark | det |
| 32 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 get | nsubj |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 get | aux |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 feared | ccomp |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 straw | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 straw | nmod:poss |
| 37 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 get | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 burn | cc |
| 39 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 get | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 burn | obj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 burn | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | past · do-support | the Scarecrow | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | take | past | it | Lion | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill | to-infinitive | the basket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | |||||
| 4 | enable | past | Scarecrow | Lion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep away | to-infinitive | Scarecrow not said here | the fire | away property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from fire=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | fear | past | Lion | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | get | might | a spark | Lion's straw | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into straw=Destination | ||||
| 8 | burn up | infinitive | a spark not said here | Lion | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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