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title: “I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.” Who acts: Dorothy, piece, straw, that. A sentence of «The Wonderful 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 9

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“I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.”

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, piece, straw, that · **What happens:** not be, say, be, paint, cut, eat · **To what, where:** lucky thing, mouth, hole, piece, Dorothy, shape · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, piece, straw, that), 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:pg55:6:9
# text = “I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	obl	_	_
49	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
51	out	out	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	nsubj	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	56	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | piece | a lucky thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **paint** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | my mouth |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 5 | **cut** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | Dorothy | a hole |  | piece |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | could | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stuff** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 8 | **come out** *in a quote* | would | the straw |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **spoil** *in a quote* | would | that | the shape of my head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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