The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 22
The Scarecrow decided to think, and he thought so hard that the pins and needles began to stick out of his brains.
Who acts: Scarecrow, content, pins · What happens: decide, think, begin, stick out · To what, where: brains
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, content, pins), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 began | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pins | det |
| 14 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 began | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 needles | cc |
| 16 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pins | conj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stick | mark |
| 19 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 brains | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 brains | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brains | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stick | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the Scarecrow | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | content | hard property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the pins and needles | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | stick out | to-infinitive | the pins and needles not said here | content's brains | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 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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