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title: For, of course, if Dorothy stays here she will never get back to Kan… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: For, of course, if Dorothy stays here she will never get back to Kansas.” Who acts: Dorothy. 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 63

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For, of course, if Dorothy stays here she will never get back to Kansas.”

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** stay, not get back

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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 (Dorothy), 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:pg55:20:63
# text = For, of course, if Dorothy stays here she will never get back to Kansas.”
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Dorothy |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **get back** | future | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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