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title: The Scarecrow decided to think, and he thought so hard that the pins… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Scarecrow decided to think, and he thought so hard that the pins and needles began to stick out of his brains. Who acts: Scarecrow, content, pins. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 22

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The Scarecrow decided to think, and he thought so hard that the pins and needles began to stick out of his brains.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, content, pins · **What happens:** decide, think, begin, stick out · **To what, where:** brains

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, content, pins), 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:pg55:20:22
# text = The Scarecrow decided to think, and he thought so hard that the pins and needles began to stick out of his brains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | content |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the pins and needles |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **stick out** | to-infinitive | the pins and needles *not said here* | content's brains |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brain=Theme |

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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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