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title: “Or I my brains?” wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from his ey… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Or I my brains?” wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from his eyes with his coat sleeve. Who acts: courage, brains. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 76

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“Or I my brains?” wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from his eyes with his coat sleeve.

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**Who acts:** courage, brains · **What happens:** brain, wail, wipe · **To what, where:** Scarecrow, tears, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courage, brains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg55:17:76
# text = “Or I my brains?” wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from his eyes with his coat sleeve.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	wailed	wail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wiping	wipe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brain** *in a quote* |  | my courage *= courage* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wail** | past | my brains | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme |
| 3 | **wipe** | gerund | my brains *not said here* | the tears |  | Lion's eyes |  | with Lion's coat sleeve | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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