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title: “I will go too,” declared the Scarecrow; “but I shall not be of much… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will go too,” declared the Scarecrow; “but I shall not be of much help to you, I am such a fool.” Who acts: Scarecrow, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 183

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“I will go too,” declared the Scarecrow; “but I shall not be of much help to you, I am such a fool.”

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, Lion · **What happens:** go, declare, not be, be · **To what, where:** you, fool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Lion), 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:pg55:13:183
# text = “I will go too,” declared the Scarecrow; “but I shall not be of much help to you, I am such a fool.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | shall | the Lion *= lion* |  | you |  |  | of much help | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Lion *= lion* | such fool |  |  |  |  | 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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