--- title: But I am not afraid so long as I have my oil-can, and nothing can hu… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: But I am not afraid so long as I have my oil-can, and nothing can hurt the Scarecrow, while you bear upon your forehead the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss, and that will protect you from harm.” Who acts: I, nothing, you, that. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/9/) [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 VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/) / 9 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 9 But I am not afraid so long as I have my oil-can, and nothing can hurt the Scarecrow, while you bear upon your forehead the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss, and that will protect you from harm.” **Who acts:** I, nothing, you, that, Good Witch · **What happens:** not be, have, hurt, bear, protect, mark · **To what, where:** Scarecrow, you, kiss 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 (I, nothing, you, that), 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:pg55:8:9 # text = But I am not afraid so long as I have my oil-can, and nothing can hurt the Scarecrow, while you bear upon your forehead the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss, and that will protect you from harm.” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 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 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 bear bear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | I | | | | | afraid, long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hurt** | can | nothing | the Scarecrow | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scarecrow=Patient | | 4 | **bear** | present | you | | | | | upon your forehead and the mark of the Good Witch's kiss | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **protect** | future | that | | you | | | from harm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from harm=Theme | | 6 | **mark** | | | the Good Witch's kiss | | | | | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **kiss** | | the Good Witch | | | | | | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/10/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/)