The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 48

“I want him to give me some brains,” said the Scarecrow eagerly.

Who acts: Scarecrow, man · What happens: want, give, say · To what, where: man, brains, Scarecrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, man), 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	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 want	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 brains	det
9	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Scarecrow	det
14	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	the Scarecrow = scarecrow	man			tree rules
2	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	some brains	the Scarecrow = scarecrow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brain=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow			eagerly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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