--- title: “You see,” he continued confidentially, “I don’t mind my legs and ar… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “You see,” he continued confidentially, “I don’t mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt. Who acts: You, Oz, Scarecrow. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/95/) [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/) / 95 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 95 “You see,” he continued confidentially, “I don’t mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt. **Who acts:** You, Oz, Scarecrow · **What happens:** see, continue, not mind, stuff, not hurt · **To what, where:** legs, body, Scarecrow · **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 (You, Oz, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:5:95 # text = “You see,” he continued confidentially, “I don’t mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 confidentially confidentially ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 13 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **continue** | past | Oz | | | | | confidentially *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* | my legs and arms and body | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 4 | **stuff** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | | body *not said here* | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme» | | 5 | **not** **hurt** *in a quote* | can · passive | | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/96/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/)