--- title: The Scarecrow went sorrowfully back to his friends and told them wha… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The Scarecrow went sorrowfully back to his friends and told them what Oz had said; and Dorothy was surprised to find that the Great Wizard was not a Head, as she had seen him, but a lovely Lady. Who acts: Scarecrow, Oz, Dorothy, Great Wizard. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Ba --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/125/) [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 XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) / 125 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 125 The Scarecrow went sorrowfully back to his friends and told them what Oz had said; and Dorothy was surprised to find that the Great Wizard was not a Head, as she had seen him, but a lovely Lady. **Who acts:** Scarecrow, Oz, Dorothy, Great Wizard · **What happens:** go, tell, say, be, find, not be · **To what, where:** friends, Head, Scarecrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Oz, Dorothy, Great Wizard), 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:pg55:13:125 # text = The Scarecrow went sorrowfully back to his friends and told them what Oz had said; and Dorothy was surprised to find that the Great Wizard was not a Head, as she had seen him, but a lovely Lady. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sorrowfully sorrowfully ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 13 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Wizard Wizard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the Scarecrow | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Scarecrow *not said here* | | friends *= friend* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Oz | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | Dorothy | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is a** | past | the Great Wizard | a Head | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | past · perfect | Oz | Scarecrow | | | | a lovely Lady *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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. 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