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title: So my good luck is all due to her, and I shall never leave her until… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So my good luck is all due to her, and I shall never leave her until she starts back to Kansas for good and all.” Who acts: good luck, I, 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 claus
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 76

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So my good luck is all due to her, and I shall never leave her until she starts back to Kansas for good and all.”

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**Who acts:** good luck, I, Dorothy · **What happens:** be, not leave, start back · **To what, where:** Dorothy, Kansas

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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 (good luck, I, 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:pg55:20:76
# text = So my good luck is all due to her, and I shall never leave her until she starts back to Kansas for good and all.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | my good luck |  | Dorothy |  |  | all, due *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | shall | I | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **start back** | present | Dorothy |  | Kansas |  |  | for good | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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