--- title: “I’m not feeling well,” said the Scarecrow, with a smile, “for it is… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I’m not feeling well,” said the Scarecrow, with a smile, “for it is very tedious being perched up here night and day to scare away crows.” Who acts: Scarecrow, smile. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Sca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/) / 73 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 73 “I’m not feeling well,” said the Scarecrow, with a smile, “for it is very tedious being perched up here night and day to scare away crows.” **Who acts:** Scarecrow, smile · **What happens:** not feel, say, be, perch up, scare away · **To what, where:** crows · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, smile), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:5:73 # text = “I’m not feeling well,” said the Scarecrow, with a smile, “for it is very tedious being perched up here night and day to scare away crows.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’m be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Scarecrow Scarecrow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 tedious tedious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **feel** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Scarecrow and a smile *= scarecrow* | | | | | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Scarecrow and a smile | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | smile | | | | | tedious *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **perch up** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | the Scarecrow and a smile *not said here* | | | here | night | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V» | | 5 | **scare away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow and a smile *not said here* | crows | | | | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crow=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/74/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/)