The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 11
“I have come for my brains,” remarked the Scarecrow, a little uneasily.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: come, remark · To what, where: brains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 brains | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brains | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brains | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brains | punct |
| 10 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 brains | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Scarecrow | det |
| 12 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remarked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uneasily | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 uneasily | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 uneasily | amod |
| 16 | uneasily | uneasily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Scarecrow | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the Scarecrow and a little uneasily = scarecrow | for my brains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | the Scarecrow and a little uneasily | my brains not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brain=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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