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title: But the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, not being made of flesh, were… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, not being made of flesh, were not troubled by the scent of the flowers. Who acts: scent. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 80

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But the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, not being made of flesh, were not troubled by the scent of the flowers.

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**Who acts:** scent · **What happens:** not make, not trouble, scent · **To what, where:** Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:10:80
# text = But the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, not being made of flesh, were not troubled by the scent of the flowers.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | gerund · passive |  | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  | of flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **not** **trouble** | past · passive | the scent of the flowers | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **scent** |  |  | the flowers |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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