The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 4

“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 · What happens: be, say, come back · To what, where: ruler, Scarecrow, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 ruler	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ruler	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ruler	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ruler	advmod
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ruler	nmod:poss
6	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ruler	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ruler	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Scarecrow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Scarecrow	det
13	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	obl
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 soon	advmod
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 come	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 possible	mark
26	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 soon	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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.

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