--- title: Dorothy ran down and helped the Scarecrow to his feet, and the Lion… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Dorothy ran down and helped the Scarecrow to his feet, and the Lion came up to her, feeling rather bruised and sore, and said, “It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.” Who acts: Dorothy, Lion, It, one. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/18/) [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 XXII. The Country of the Quadl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/) / 18 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 18 Dorothy ran down and helped the Scarecrow to his feet, and the Lion came up to her, feeling rather bruised and sore, and said, “It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.” **Who acts:** Dorothy, Lion, It, one · **What happens:** run down, help, come up, feel, bruise, say · **To what, where:** Scarecrow, shot, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Lion, It, one), 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:pg55:24:18 # text = Dorothy ran down and helped the Scarecrow to his feet, and the Lion came up to her, feeling rather bruised and sore, and said, “It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.” 1 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 21 rather rather ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 bruised bruise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 shooting shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 40 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 41 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 withstand withstand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run down** | past | Dorothy | | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | past | Dorothy *not said here* | the Scarecrow | | | | to Dorothy's feet | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Beneficiary | | 3 | **come up** | past | the Lion | | shot | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **feel** | gerund | the Lion *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **bruise** | participle | the Lion *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | It | | | | | useless *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | people | | | | with shooting heads | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | | 9 | **withstand** *in a quote* | can | no one | people | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/19/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/)