The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 98

“All the same,” said the Scarecrow, “I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: say, ask, not know, do, have · To what, where: one · 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 (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	_	7 said	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 said	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 All	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Scarecrow	det
9	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ask	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ask	aux
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 brains	case
16	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	obl
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 heart	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heart	det
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ask	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 fool	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fool	det
24	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 know	obl
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ask	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 do	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 know	ccomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 heart	det
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	obl
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 had	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 do	advcl
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 had	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	shall	the Scarecrow = scarecrow		for brains; instead a heart	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know in a quote	would	the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here		for a fool	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive			with a heart	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Scarecrow	one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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