The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 24
“When I get used to my brains I shall know everything.”
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: use, know · To what, where: Scarecrow, everything
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 | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 used | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 used | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 know | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brains | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brains | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in a quote | present · passive | Scarecrow | to my brains | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | shall | Scarecrow | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
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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