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title: So Dorothy said good-bye to all her friends except Toto, and taking… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So Dorothy said good-bye to all her friends except Toto, and taking the dog in her arms followed the green girl through seven passages and up three flights of stairs until they came to a room at the front of the Palace. Who acts: Dorothy, arms. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 28

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So Dorothy said good-bye to all her friends except Toto, and taking the dog in her arms followed the green girl through seven passages and up three flights of stairs until they came to a room at the front of the Palace.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, arms · **What happens:** say, take, follow, come · **To what, where:** dog, seven passages, green girl, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, arms), 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:pg55:13:28
# text = So Dorothy said good-bye to all her friends except Toto, and taking the dog in her arms followed the green girl through seven passages and up three flights of stairs until they came to a room at the front of the Palace.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bye	bye	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	except	except	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	flights	flight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* |  | the dog | seven passages and three flights of stairs |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |
| 3 | **follow** | past | girl's arms | the green girl |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | Dorothy |  |  | the front of the Palace |  | to a room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_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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