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title: So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz. Who acts: country, everything. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 12

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So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz.

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**Who acts:** country, everything · **What happens:** tell, be, carry · **To what, where:** Dorothy, cyclone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, everything), 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:pg55:6:12
# text = So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	queer	quee	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | country |  | Dorothy |  |  | about Kansas; all *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about kansas=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cyclone |  |  |  | to this queer Land of Oz. | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Value |

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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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