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title: This book is dedicated to my good friend & comrade My Wife L.F.B. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: This book is dedicated to my good friend & comrade My Wife L.F.B. Who acts: book. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 3

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This book is dedicated to my good friend & comrade My Wife L.F.B.

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book), 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:pg55:1:3
# text = This book is dedicated to my good friend & comrade My Wife L.F.B.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dedicated	dedicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	L.F.B	L.F.B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this book |  |  |  |  | to my good friend  My Wife & comrade; dedicated *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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