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title: “From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely. Who acts: Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIV. Home Again, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIV. Home Again, sentence 4

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“From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIV. Home Again. 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:pg55:26:4
# text = “From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
11	gravely	gravely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy |  |  | the Land of Oz |  | gravely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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