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title: “I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow after all; but the old crow comforted me, saying, ‘If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Who acts: crows, it, old crow, you. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wi
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 55

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“I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow after all; but the old crow comforted me, saying, ‘If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them.

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**Who acts:** crows, it, old crow, you · **What happens:** feel, show, not be, comfort, say, have · **To what, where:** better man, good Scarecrow, crows, good man, brains, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (crows, it, old crow, you), 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:pg55:6:55
# text = “I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow after all; but the old crow comforted me, saying, ‘If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
35	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	amod	_	_
54	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
55	than	than	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	nmod	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | crows *= crow* | a better man than some |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | crows *= crow* | such good Scarecrow |  |  | after all |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **comfort** *in a quote* | past | the old crow | crows *= crow* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | the old crow *not said here* | a good man |  |  |  | as any | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 6 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | brains |  | your head |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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