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title: “If Dorothy would only be contented to live in the Emerald City,” co… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “If Dorothy would only be contented to live in the Emerald City,” continued the Scarecrow, “we might all be happy together.” Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 18

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“If Dorothy would only be contented to live in the Emerald City,” continued the Scarecrow, “we might all be happy together.”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** content, live, continue, be · **To what, where:** Dorothy, Emerald City, Scarecrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg55:20:18
# text = “If Dorothy would only be contented to live in the Emerald City,” continued the Scarecrow, “we might all be happy together.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would · passive |  | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Emerald City |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 3 | **continue** | past |  | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | might | we |  |  |  |  | all, happy, together *property* | tree rules |

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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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