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title: “Run fast,” said the Scarecrow to the Lion, “and get out of this dea… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Run fast,” said the Scarecrow to the Lion, “and get out of this deadly flower bed as soon as you can. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 81

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“Run fast,” said the Scarecrow to the Lion, “and get out of this deadly flower bed as soon as you can.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow · **What happens:** run, say, get out · **To what, where:** Lion, deadly flower bed · **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 (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:pg55:10:81
# text = “Run fast,” said the Scarecrow to the Lion, “and get out of this deadly flower bed as soon as you can.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Scarecrow |  | the Lion |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Scarecrow *not said here* | deadly flower bed |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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