The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 36
“And I shall get my brains,” added the Scarecrow joyfully.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: get, add · To what, where: brains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. 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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 added | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brains | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Scarecrow | det |
| 12 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obj |
| 13 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 10 added | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | shall | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | my brains | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | joyfully property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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