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title: So the Scarecrow climbed farther up and sat down on the top of the w… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Scarecrow climbed farther up and sat down on the top of the wall, and Dorothy put her head over and cried, “Oh, my!” just as the Scarecrow had done. Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its depend
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 13

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So the Scarecrow climbed farther up and sat down on the top of the wall, and Dorothy put her head over and cried, “Oh, my!” just as the Scarecrow had done.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, Dorothy · **What happens:** climb, sit down, put over, cry, do · **To what, where:** top, head, my

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Dorothy), 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:pg55:22:13
# text = So the Scarecrow climbed farther up and sat down on the top of the wall, and Dorothy put her head over and cried, “Oh, my!” just as the Scarecrow had done.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | the Scarecrow *not said here* |  |  | the top of the wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
| 3 | **put over** | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's head |  |  |  | over *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Scarecrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | the Scarecrow | my |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Eventuality |

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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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