--- title: “My greatest wish now,” she added, “is to get back to Kansas, for Au… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “My greatest wish now,” she added, “is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it.” Who acts: cyclone, Aunt E --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch G…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/) / 8 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 8 “My greatest wish now,” she added, “is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it.” **Who acts:** cyclone, Aunt Em, something, that, crops, Uncle Henry · **What happens:** add, be, think, happen, make, put · **To what, where:** greatest wish, cyclone, mourning · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (cyclone, Aunt Em, something, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:25:8 # text = “My greatest wish now,” she added, “is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Kansas Kansas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 Aunt Aunt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Em Em PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 surely surely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 25 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 26 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 mourning mourning NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 45 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 parataxis _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl:unmarked _ _ 49 than than ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 last last ADV RB _ 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 56 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 57 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 59 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 60 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 61 advmod _ _ 61 afford afford VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 ccomp _ _ 62 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | cyclone | My greatest wish | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | get *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | Aunt Em | | | | | surely *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | present · perfect | something | | cyclone | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | future | that | cyclone | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | cyclone *not said here* | | | mourning | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on mourning=Destination | | 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the crops | | | | year | good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | past | crops *= crop* | | | | | last *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cyclone | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **afford** *in a quote* | can | Uncle Henry | mourning | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **wish** *in a quote* | | My | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/)