The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 115

Therefore I have no brains, and I come to you praying that you will put brains in my head instead of straw, so that I may become as much a man as any other in your dominions.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, come, pray, put, become · To what, where: brains, head, much man

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 brains	det
5	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
10	to	to	SCONJ	_	12 praying	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 praying	nsubj
12	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 come	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 put	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 put	aux
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 praying	advcl
17	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 put	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
21	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	23 straw	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 instead	fixed
23	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 praying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 become	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 become	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	conj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	xcomp
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 other	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 become	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 dominions	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 dominions	nmod:poss
39	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 other	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	no brains		therefore property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	come	present	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pray	gerund	you			instead straw	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	put	future	you	brains	my head		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brain=Theme in head=Destination
5	become	may	I	a much man		as any other	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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