--- title: So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, “I suppose we must try it; but I… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, “I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again.” Who acts: Dorothy, we, Em. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/181/) [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/) / 181 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 181 So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, “I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again.” **Who acts:** Dorothy, we, Em · **What happens:** dry, say, suppose, try, be, not want · **To what, where:** eyes, gown, anybody · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Dorothy, we, Em), 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:pg55:13:181 # text = So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, “I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dried dry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 Aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 Em they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dry** | past | Dorothy | girl's eyes | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | Dorothy | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **try** *in a quote* | must | we | gown | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Dorothy | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Dorothy | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **kill** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | anybody | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Theme | | 8 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **aunt** *in a quote* | | Em *= they* | | | | | | tree rules | 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 180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/180/) - next →: [sentence 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/182/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/)