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title: But Dorothy, knowing her to be a witch, had expected her to disappea… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But Dorothy, knowing her to be a witch, had expected her to disappear in just that way, and was not surprised in the least. Who acts: Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 23

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But Dorothy, knowing her to be a witch, had expected her to disappear in just that way, and was not surprised in the least.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** know, be, expect, disappear, not be · **To what, where:** straightway, witch, Dorothy, way, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. 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:pg55:4:23
# text = But Dorothy, knowing her to be a witch, had expected her to disappear in just that way, and was not surprised in the least.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* | straightway |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** | past · perfect · passive |  | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disappear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  | that way |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  | the least |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |

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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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