The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 76
“Or I my brains?” wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from his eyes with his coat sleeve.
Who acts: courage, brains · What happens: brain, wail, wipe · To what, where: Scarecrow, tears, eyes
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 (courage, brains), 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 | _ | 8 wailed | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 brains | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brains | nsubj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brains | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wailed | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 brains | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brains | punct |
| 8 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Scarecrow | det |
| 10 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wailed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wiping | punct |
| 12 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 wailed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tears | det |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wiping | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tears | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sleeve | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 20 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sleeve | compound |
| 21 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wiping | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brain in a quote | my courage = courage | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | wail | past | my brains | the Scarecrow | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wipe | gerund | my brains not said here | the tears | Lion's eyes | with Lion's coat sleeve | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Trajectory |
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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