--- title: Opening — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · full text with trees description: Opening, «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/) [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/) / Opening # Opening Opening of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum: the whole text, 36 sentences and 379 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/1/) — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/2/) — by L. Frank Baum - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/3/) — This book is dedicated to my good friend & comrade My Wife L.F.B. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/4/) — Contents - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/5/) — Introduction Chapter I. The Cyclone Chapter II. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/6/) — The Council with the Munchkins Chapter III. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/7/) — How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow Chapter IV. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/8/) — The Road Through the Forest Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman Chapter VI. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/9/) — The Cowardly Lion Chapter VII. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/10/) — The Journey to the Great Oz Chapter VIII. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/11/) — The Deadly Poppy Field Chapter IX. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/12/) — The Queen of the Field Mice Chapter X. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/13/) — The Guardian of the Gates Chapter XI. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/14/) — The Emerald City of Oz Chapter XII. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/15/) — The Search for the Wicked Witch Chapter XIII. — checked by a teacher - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/16/) — The Rescue Chapter XIV. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/17/) — The Winged Monkeys Chapter XV. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/18/) — The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible Chapter XVI. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/19/) — The Magic Art of the Great Humbug Chapter XVII. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/20/) — How the Balloon Was Launched Chapter XVIII. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/21/) — Away to the South Chapter XIX. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/22/) — Attacked by the Fighting Trees Chapter XX. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/23/) — The Dainty China Country Chapter XXI. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/24/) — The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts Chapter XXII. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/25/) — The Country of the Quadlings Chapter XXIII. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/26/) — Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish Chapter XXIV. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/27/) — Home Again - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/28/) — Introduction - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/29/) — Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/30/) — The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/31/) — Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/32/) — Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/33/) — Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/34/) — It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/35/) — L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/1/36/) — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - next →: [Chapter I. The Cyclone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/2/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/)