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title: But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stu… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?” Who acts: I, people, yours. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its de
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 97

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But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?”

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**Who acts:** I, people, yours · **What happens:** not want, call, stuff, be, know · **To what, where:** people, me, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people, yours), 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:pg55:5:97
# text = But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
31	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
36	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | I | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **stuff** | present · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with straw; instead brains | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with straw=Theme |
| 4 | **does** | present | yours |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | present | I | anything |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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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