--- title: “I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do n… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” Who acts: Scarecrow, happiness. 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 th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/99/) [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/) / 99 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 99 “I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” **Who acts:** Scarecrow, happiness · **What happens:** take, return, not make, be · **To what, where:** heart, Tin Woodman, one, best thing, world · **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 (Scarecrow, happiness), 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:pg55:7:99 # text = “I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | shall | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* | the heart | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent heart=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **return** | past | | the Tin Woodman | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme | | 3 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | present · do-support | | one | | | | for brains; happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent one=Product for brain=Asset | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | happiness | the best thing | | the world | | | tree rules | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/100/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/)