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title: But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy’s basket and oiled… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy’s basket and oiled the Woodman’s jaws, so that after a few moments he could talk as well as before. Who acts: Scarecrow, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 85

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But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy’s basket and oiled the Woodman’s jaws, so that after a few moments he could talk as well as before.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, Lion · **What happens:** seize, oil, talk · **To what, where:** basket, jaws

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Lion), 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:pg55:8:85
# text = But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy’s basket and oiled the Woodman’s jaws, so that after a few moments he could talk as well as before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	oiled	oil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	32	cc	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the Scarecrow |  |  | Dorothy's basket |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from basket=Source |
| 2 | **oil** | past | the Scarecrow *not said here* | the Woodman's jaws |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent jaw=Destination |
| 3 | **talk** | could | Lion |  |  |  | moment |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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