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title: “We must cross this strange place in order to get to the other side,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “We must cross this strange place in order to get to the other side,” said Dorothy, “for it would be unwise for us to go any other way except due South.” Who acts: We, Dorothy, place, us. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its depe
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 29

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“We must cross this strange place in order to get to the other side,” said Dorothy, “for it would be unwise for us to go any other way except due South.”

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**Who acts:** We, Dorothy, place, us · **What happens:** cross, get, say, be, go · **To what, where:** strange place, other way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Dorothy, place, us), 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:pg55:22:29
# text = “We must cross this strange place in order to get to the other side,” said Dorothy, “for it would be unwise for us to go any other way except due South.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	unwise	unwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	except	except	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** *in a quote* | must | We | this strange place |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the other side *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | would | place |  |  |  |  | unwise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | us | any other way except due South |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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