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title: Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of O… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. Who acts: story. 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 33

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Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** have, write, please · **To what, where:** thought, mind, Wonderful Wizard, children

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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 (story), 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:pg55:1:33
# text = Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
19	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | this thought |  | mind |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive | the story *not said here* | the Wonderful Wizard of Oz |  |  |  | solely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **please** | to-infinitive | the story *not said here* | children of today |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

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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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