The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 136
“That may all be true,” said the Scarecrow, “but I shall be very unhappy unless you give me brains.”
Who acts: That, Scarecrow, you · What happens: be, say, give · To what, where: Scarecrow, brains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Scarecrow, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 true | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 true | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 true | cop |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unhappy | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 unhappy | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 unhappy | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 unhappy | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 unhappy | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 unhappy | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 unhappy | advmod |
| 19 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Scarecrow | acl |
| 20 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 unhappy | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | That | all, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | the Scarecrow not said here | unhappy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | brains | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brain=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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