The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 59
“My head is stuffed with straw, you know, and that is why I am going to Oz to ask him for some brains.”
Who acts: you, that, Scarecrow · What happens: stuff, know, be, go, ask · To what, where: head, Oz, Scarecrow
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 (you, that, 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 | _ | 5 stuffed | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuffed | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuffed | aux:pass |
| 5 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 straw | case |
| 7 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuffed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuffed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 why | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 why | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 why | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 why | cop |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stuffed | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 why | advcl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Oz | case |
| 20 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ask | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 brains | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 brains | det |
| 26 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ask | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff in a quote | present · passive | My head | with straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with straw=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | Oz | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oz=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here | Scarecrow | for some brains | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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