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title: “We must journey on until we find the road of yellow brick again,” s… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “We must journey on until we find the road of yellow brick again,” said Dorothy, “and then we can keep on to the Emerald City.” Who acts: We, 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 ever
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 8

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“We must journey on until we find the road of yellow brick again,” said Dorothy, “and then we can keep on to the Emerald City.”

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**Who acts:** We, Dorothy · **What happens:** journey on, find, say, keep · **To what, where:** road, Emerald City · **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 (We, 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:pg55:12:8
# text = “We must journey on until we find the road of yellow brick again,” said Dorothy, “and then we can keep on to the Emerald City.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey on** *in a quote* | must | We |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | present | we | the road of yellow brick |  |  | again |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | can | we |  |  | the Emerald City | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on city=Location |

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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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