The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 41
“I want him to send me back to Kansas, and the Scarecrow wants him to put a few brains into his head,” she replied.
Who acts: Kansas, Oz, Scarecrow · What happens: want, send, put, reply · To what, where: Oz, Kansas, few brains, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kansas, Oz, 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 send | iobj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 send | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Kansas | case |
| 10 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 back | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wants | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wants | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Scarecrow | det |
| 14 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wants | nsubj |
| 15 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wants | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wants | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 brains | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brains | amod |
| 21 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 replied | nsubj |
| 28 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Kansas | Oz | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Oz not said here | Kansas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the Scarecrow | Oz | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Oz not said here | a few brains | Oz's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brain=Goal | |||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | Kansas | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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