The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 46
“It would be as easy as to give the Scarecrow brains.”
What happens: be, give · To what, where: Scarecrow brains · 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: 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 | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 easy | expl |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brains | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brains | compound |
| 12 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow brains | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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