The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 64

“I am going to the Great Oz to ask him to give me some,” remarked the Scarecrow, “for my head is stuffed with straw.”

Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: go, ask, give, remark, stuff · To what, where: Great Oz, Oz, some, Scarecrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. 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	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Oz	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Oz	det
7	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Oz	flat
8	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ask	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ask	xcomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
18	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 going	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Scarecrow	det
20	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remarked	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stuffed	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 stuffed	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stuffed	obl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stuffed	aux:pass
27	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Scarecrow	acl:relcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 straw	case
29	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stuffed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the Scarecrow = scarecrow			the Great Oz		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oz=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here		Oz			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Scarecrow = scarecrow not said here	some	the Scarecrow = scarecrow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme
4	remark speech: assert	participle	the Scarecrow					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stuff in a quote	present · passive		the Scarecrow not said here			for my head; with straw	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with straw=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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