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title: As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, an… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length on the hard bricks. Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, with its dependency tree and
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 3

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As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length on the hard bricks.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, Dorothy · **What happens:** have, walk, step, fall · **To what, where:** brains, holes, full length

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Dorothy), 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:pg55:6:3
# text = As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length on the hard bricks.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the Scarecrow *not said here* | no brains |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | as the Scarecrow; ahead *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **step** | participle | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  | the holes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  | full length |  | on the hard bricks | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |

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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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