--- title: “We must certainly get to the Emerald City if we can,” the Scarecrow… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “We must certainly get to the Emerald City if we can,” the Scarecrow continued, and he pushed so hard on his long pole that it stuck fast in the mud at the bottom of the river. Who acts: We, Scarecrow, Kansas, City. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/14/) [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 VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/) / 14 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 14 “We must certainly get to the Emerald City if we can,” the Scarecrow continued, and he pushed so hard on his long pole that it stuck fast in the mud at the bottom of the river. **Who acts:** We, Scarecrow, Kansas, City · **What happens:** get, continue, push, stick · **To what, where:** mud · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Scarecrow, Kansas, City), 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:pg55:10:14 # text = “We must certainly get to the Emerald City if we can,” the Scarecrow continued, and he pushed so hard on his long pole that it stuck fast in the mud at the bottom of the river. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 31 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | must | We | | | | | to the Emerald City *result*; certainly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | | 2 | **continue** | past | the Scarecrow | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **push** | past | Kansas | | | | | on Kansas's long pole; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on pole=Theme | | 4 | **stick** | past | City | | | the mud | | at the bottom of the river; fast *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mud=Destination | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/15/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/)