--- title: “The North is my home,” said the old lady, “and at its edge is the s… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “The North is my home,” said the old lady, “and at its edge is the same great desert that surrounds this Land of Oz. I’m afraid, my dear, you will have to live with us.” Who acts: North, old lady, same great desert, you. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/92/) [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 II. The Council with the Munch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/) / 92 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 92 “The North is my home,” said the old lady, “and at its edge is the same great desert that surrounds this Land of Oz. I’m afraid, my dear, you will have to live with us.” **Who acts:** North, old lady, same great desert, you · **What happens:** be, say, surround, have, live · **To what, where:** home, same great desert, edge, Land · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North, old lady, same great desert, you), 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:pg55:3:92 # text = “The North is my home,” said the old lady, “and at its edge is the same great desert that surrounds this Land of Oz. I’m afraid, my dear, you will have to live with us.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 surrounds surround VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 Land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Oz. oz. NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the North | my home | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old lady | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the same great desert | | North's edge | | | tree rules | | 4 | **surround** *in a quote* | present | the same great desert | this Land of Oz. | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | the old lady *= lady* | this Land of Oz. *not said here* | | | | afraid *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/93/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/)