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title: “To the Emerald City,” said Dorothy, “to see the Great Oz.” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “To the Emerald City,” said Dorothy, “to see the Great Oz.” Who acts: Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 31

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“To the Emerald City,” said Dorothy, “to see the Great Oz.”

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** say, see · **To what, where:** Emerald City, Great Oz. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg55:12:31
# text = “To the Emerald City,” said Dorothy, “to see the Great Oz.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy |  | the Emerald City |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to city=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the Great Oz. |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz.=Stimulus |

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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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