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title: “But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.” Who acts: Woodman. 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 every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 64

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“But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”

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**Who acts:** Woodman · **What happens:** have, try · **To what, where:** brains, heart

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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 (Woodman), 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:pg55:7:64
# text = “But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
16	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the Woodman *= woodman* | brains |  |  |  | a heart *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **try** *in a quote* | past | the Woodman *= woodman* *not said here* | brains *= brain* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer both=Result |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | should | the Woodman *= woodman* | a heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

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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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