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title: So the Scarecrow followed him and was admitted into the great Throne… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Scarecrow followed him and was admitted into the great Throne Room, where he saw, sitting in the emerald throne, a most lovely Lady. Who acts: Scarecrow, soldier. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 107

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So the Scarecrow followed him and was admitted into the great Throne Room, where he saw, sitting in the emerald throne, a most lovely Lady.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, soldier · **What happens:** follow, admit, see, sit · **To what, where:** soldier, great Throne Room, emerald throne

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, soldier), 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:pg55:13:107
# text = So the Scarecrow followed him and was admitted into the great Throne Room, where he saw, sitting in the emerald throne, a most lovely Lady.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Throne	Throne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Room	Room	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the Scarecrow | soldier |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | past · passive | the Scarecrow *not said here* |  |  | the great Throne Room |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» |
| 3 | **see** | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | soldier *not said here* |  |  | the emerald throne and a lovely Lady |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in throne=Location |

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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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