The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 36

“But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!” cried the Scarecrow.

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: not have, cry · To what, where: wonderful brains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. 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	_	14 cried	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 had	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 had	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 cried	parataxis
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brains	nmod:poss
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brains	amod
11	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Scarecrow	det
16	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	should · perfect	the Scarecrow = scarecrow	my wonderful brains			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	the Scarecrow						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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