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title: “If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance. Who acts: you, Queen, we, your. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 68

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“If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance.

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**Who acts:** you, Queen, we, your · **What happens:** need, say, come out, call, hear, come · **To what, where:** us, field, you, assistance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Queen, we, your), 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:pg55:11:68
# text = “If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | us |  |  | ever; again |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot we=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the field |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | shall | we | you |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | your assistance |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **assist** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=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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