The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 55

“I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow after all; but the old crow comforted me, saying, ‘If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them.

Who acts: crows, it, old crow, you · What happens: feel, show, not be, comfort, say, have · To what, where: better man, good Scarecrow, crows, good man, brains, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows, it, old crow, you), 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	_	3 felt	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sad	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 showed	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 showed	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showed	nsubj
10	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Scarecrow	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Scarecrow	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 Scarecrow	advmod
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 Scarecrow	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Scarecrow	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Scarecrow	amod
17	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 showed	ccomp
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Scarecrow	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 comforted	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 comforted	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crow	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 crow	amod
24	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comforted	nsubj
25	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 comforted	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 comforted	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
31	If	if	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 had	advmod
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 good	advcl
35	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 had	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 head	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 good	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 good	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 good	cop
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 good	advmod
43	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 man	amod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 man	det
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saying	obj
46	as	as	ADP	_	47 any	case
47	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 saying	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 any	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 man	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 man	cc
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 man	det
53	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 man	amod
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obl
55	than	than	ADP	_	56 some	case
56	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 man	nmod
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 them	case
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 some	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	past	crows = crow	a better man than some			sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	show in a quote	past	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	past	crows = crow	such good Scarecrow		after all		tree rules
4	comfort in a quote	past	the old crow	crows = crow				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	the old crow not said here	a good man			as any	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
6	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	brains	your head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
7	is in a quote	would	you				good property	tree rules

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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