--- title: “I want him to send me back to Kansas, and the Scarecrow wants him t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I want him to send me back to Kansas, and the Scarecrow wants him to put a few brains into his head,” she replied. Who acts: Kansas, Oz, Scarecrow. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/41/) [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 V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/) / 41 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 41 “I want him to send me back to Kansas, and the Scarecrow wants him to put a few brains into his head,” she replied. **Who acts:** Kansas, Oz, Scarecrow · **What happens:** want, send, put, reply · **To what, where:** Oz, Kansas, few brains, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kansas, Oz, 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:pg55:7:41 # text = “I want him to send me back to Kansas, and the Scarecrow wants him to put a few brains into his head,” she replied. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Kansas Kansas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Kansas | Oz | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **send** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Oz *not said here* | | Kansas | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the Scarecrow | Oz | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Oz *not said here* | a few brains | | Oz's head | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brain=Goal | | 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Kansas | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/42/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/)