The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 63
“When I have brains, I shall probably like them better.”
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: have, like · To what, where: brains
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | advcl |
| 5 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 9 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 10 like | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 like | obj |
| 12 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 like | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | brains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | shall | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | brains = brain | probably, well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
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.
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