--- title: “If this road goes in, it must come out,” said the Scarecrow, “and a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “If this road goes in, it must come out,” said the Scarecrow, “and as the Emerald City is at the other end of the road, we must go wherever it leads us.” Who acts: road, Scarecrow, Emerald City, we. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/67/) [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 IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/) / 67 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 67 “If this road goes in, it must come out,” said the Scarecrow, “and as the Emerald City is at the other end of the road, we must go wherever it leads us.” **Who acts:** road, Scarecrow, Emerald City, we, City · **What happens:** go in, come out, say, be, go, lead · **To what, where:** other end, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, Scarecrow, Emerald City, we), 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:pg55:6:67 # text = “If this road goes in, it must come out,” said the Scarecrow, “and as the Emerald City is at the other end of the road, we must go wherever it leads us.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 6 in in ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 36 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go in** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this road | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come out** *in a quote* | must | road | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Scarecrow | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Emerald City | | | | at the other end | of the road | tree rules | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | must | we | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lead** *in a quote* | present | City | us | | | | wherever *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/68/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/)