--- title: “I know it,” returned Dorothy, “but we have lost the Scarecrow, and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I know it,” returned Dorothy, “but we have lost the Scarecrow, and are wondering how we shall get him again.” Who acts: road, we. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, 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/pg55/10/44/) [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/) / 44 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 44 “I know it,” returned Dorothy, “but we have lost the Scarecrow, and are wondering how we shall get him again.” **Who acts:** road, we · **What happens:** know, return, lose, wonder, get · **To what, where:** neck, Dorothy, Scarecrow, road · **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 (road, we), 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:pg55:10:44 # text = “I know it,” returned Dorothy, “but we have lost the Scarecrow, and are wondering how we shall get him again.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 wondering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the road *= road* | neck | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **return** | past | | Dorothy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | the Scarecrow | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Eventuality | | 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | shall | we | road | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/45/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/)