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title: Turning to the Tin Woodman, she asked, “What will become of you when… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Turning to the Tin Woodman, she asked, “What will become of you when Dorothy leaves this country?” Who acts: Glinda, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 20

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Turning to the Tin Woodman, she asked, “What will become of you when Dorothy leaves this country?”

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**Who acts:** Glinda, Dorothy · **What happens:** turn, ask, become, leave · **To what, where:** country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glinda, 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:pg55:25:20
# text = Turning to the Tin Woodman, she asked, “What will become of you when Dorothy leaves this country?”
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Glinda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Tin Woodman *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to woodman=Result |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Glinda |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **become** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | of you | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | present | Dorothy | this country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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