--- title: “My name is Dorothy,” said the girl, “and I am going to the Emerald… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “My name is Dorothy,” said the girl, “and I am going to the Emerald City, to ask the Great Oz to send me back to Kansas.” Who acts: name, Dorothy, My. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/83/) [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 III. How Dorothy Saved the Sca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/) / 83 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 83 “My name is Dorothy,” said the girl, “and I am going to the Emerald City, to ask the Great Oz to send me back to Kansas.” **Who acts:** name, Dorothy, My · **What happens:** be, say, go, ask, send back, name · **To what, where:** Dorothy, girl, Emerald City, Great Oz · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Dorothy, My), 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:pg55:5:83 # text = “My name is Dorothy,” said the girl, “and I am going to the Emerald City, to ask the Great Oz to send me back to Kansas.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Great Great PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 26 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Kansas Kansas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My name | Dorothy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy | the girl | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Dorothy | | | the Emerald City | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | the Great Oz | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **send back** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | Dorothy | | | to Kansas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kansas=Destination | | 6 | **name** *in a quote* | | My | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/84/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/)