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title: “We must hurry and get back to the road of yellow brick before dark,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “We must hurry and get back to the road of yellow brick before dark,” he said; and the Scarecrow agreed with him. Who acts: We, brick, Scarecrow. 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 cl
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 72

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“We must hurry and get back to the road of yellow brick before dark,” he said; and the Scarecrow agreed with him.

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**Who acts:** We, brick, Scarecrow · **What happens:** hurry, get back, say, agree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, brick, Scarecrow), 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:pg55:10:72
# text = “We must hurry and get back to the road of yellow brick before dark,” he said; and the Scarecrow agreed with him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** *in a quote* | must | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get back** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  | before dark | to the road of yellow brick *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brick |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | with brick | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |

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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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