--- title: “I am going to the Great Oz to ask him to give me some,” remarked th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I am going to the Great Oz to ask him to give me some,” remarked the Scarecrow, “for my head is stuffed with straw.” Who acts: Scarecrow. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/64/) [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 VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/) / 64 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 64 “I am going to the Great Oz to ask him to give me some,” remarked the Scarecrow, “for my head is stuffed with straw.” **Who acts:** Scarecrow · **What happens:** go, ask, give, remark, stuff · **To what, where:** Great Oz, Oz, some, Scarecrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg55:8:64 # text = “I am going to the Great Oz to ask him to give me some,” remarked the Scarecrow, “for my head is stuffed with straw.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Great Great PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 8 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 18 remarked remark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* | | | the Great Oz | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to oz=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* *not said here* | | Oz | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* *not said here* | some | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme | | 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the Scarecrow | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stuff** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the Scarecrow *not said here* | | | | for my head; with straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with straw=Theme | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/65/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/)