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title: “You are now our ruler,” he said to the Scarecrow; “so you must come… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are now our ruler,” he said to the Scarecrow; “so you must come back to us as soon as possible.” Who acts: Scarecrow, Guardian. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 4

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“You are now our ruler,” he said to the Scarecrow; “so you must come back to us as soon as possible.”

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, Guardian · **What happens:** be, say, come back · **To what, where:** ruler, Scarecrow, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Guardian), 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:pg55:21:4
# text = “You are now our ruler,” he said to the Scarecrow; “so you must come back to us as soon as possible.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* | our ruler |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Guardian |  | the Scarecrow |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to scarecrow=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come back** *in a quote* | must | the Scarecrow *= scarecrow* |  | us |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial\_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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