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title: Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Who acts: Modern education, modern child, education. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening, with its depende
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 32

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Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

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**Who acts:** Modern education, modern child, education · **What happens:** include, seek, dispense, tell · **To what, where:** morality, entertainment, wonder tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Modern education, modern child, education), 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:pg55:1:32
# text = Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
1	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	morality	morality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seeks	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dispenses	dispense	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | Modern education | morality |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morality=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | present | the modern child | entertainment |  | education's wonder tales |  | therefore *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent entertainment=Theme in tale=Location |
| 3 | **dispense** | present | the modern child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all disagreeable incident; gladly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** |  | education |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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