--- title: “For,” he said to himself, “if it is the head, I am sure I shall not… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “For,” he said to himself, “if it is the head, I am sure I shall not be given a heart, since a head has no heart of its own and therefore cannot feel for me. Who acts: Woodman, room, head. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/132/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) / 132 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 132 “For,” he said to himself, “if it is the head, I am sure I shall not be given a heart, since a head has no heart of its own and therefore cannot feel for me. **Who acts:** Woodman, room, head · **What happens:** say, be, not give, have, not feel · **To what, where:** Woodman, head, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, room, head), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:13:132 # text = “For,” he said to himself, “if it is the head, I am sure I shall not be given a heart, since a head has no heart of its own and therefore cannot feel for me. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 For for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 since since SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Woodman | | Woodman | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | room | the head | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Woodman | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | Woodman | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient heart=Theme | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a head | no heart of room's own | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 6 | **not** **feel** *in a quote* | can | a head *not said here* | | | | | for Woodman; therefore *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=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. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/133/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/)