--- title: “But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!” cried the Scar… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!” cried the Scarecrow. Who acts: Scarecrow. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/36/) [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 XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch G…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/) / 36 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 36 “But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!” cried the Scarecrow. **Who acts:** Scarecrow · **What happens:** not have, cry · **To what, where:** wonderful brains · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:25:36 # text = “But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!” cried the Scarecrow. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux _ _ 8 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 parataxis _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 14 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | should · perfect | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* | my wonderful brains | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Scarecrow | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/)