--- title: Her friends were sorry, but could do nothing to help her; so Dorothy… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Her friends were sorry, but could do nothing to help her; so Dorothy went to her own room and lay down on the bed and cried herself to sleep. Who acts: friends, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/104/) [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 XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) / 104 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 104 Her friends were sorry, but could do nothing to help her; so Dorothy went to her own room and lay down on the bed and cried herself to sleep. **Who acts:** friends, Dorothy · **What happens:** be, do, help, go, lay down, cry · **To what, where:** nothing, Oz, own room, bed This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, Dorothy), 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:pg55:13:104 # text = Her friends were sorry, but could do nothing to help her; so Dorothy went to her own room and lay down on the bed and cried herself to sleep. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 29 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Oz's friends | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | could | | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | | nothing *not said here* | Oz | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 4 | **go** | past | Dorothy | | | Oz's own room | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **lay down** | infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | the bed | | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Dorothy *not said here* | Oz | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 7 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/105/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/)