The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 70

“If it required brains to figure it out, I never should have said it.”

Who acts: daylight, Dorothy · What happens: require, figure out, not say · To what, where: brains, daylight · 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 (daylight, Dorothy), 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	_	15 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 required	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 required	nsubj
4	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
5	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 required	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 figure	mark
7	figure	figure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 required	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 figure	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 figure	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 required	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 said	advmod
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	require a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	daylight	brains	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient clause=Topic
2	figure out in a quote	to-infinitive	daylight not said here	daylight	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	not say speech: assert in a quote	should · perfect	Dorothy	daylight	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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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