---
title: The soldier had the news carried straight to Oz that Dorothy and the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldier had the news carried straight to Oz that Dorothy and the other travelers had come back again, after destroying the Wicked Witch; but Oz made no reply. Who acts: soldier, news, Dorothy, Oz. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the T
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/18/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 XV. The Discovery of Oz, the T…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/) / 18

# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The soldier had the news carried straight to Oz that Dorothy and the other travelers had come back again, after destroying the Wicked Witch; but Oz made no reply.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** soldier, news, Dorothy, Oz · **What happens:** have, carry, come back, destroy, make · **To what, where:** Oz, Wicked Witch, reply

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, news, Dorothy, Oz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg55:17:18
# text = The soldier had the news carried straight to Oz that Dorothy and the other travelers had come back again, after destroying the Wicked Witch; but Oz made no reply.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the soldier |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the news |  | Oz |  |  | straight *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to oz=Destination |
| 3 | **come back** | past · perfect | Dorothy and the other travelers |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund | Dorothy and the other travelers *not said here* | the Wicked Witch |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | past | Oz | no reply |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/17/)
- next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/19/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/)