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title: “The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again,” remarked the Lion. Who acts: best plan, we, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 33

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“The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again,” remarked the Lion.

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**Who acts:** best plan, we, Lion · **What happens:** be, come, remark · **To what, where:** road · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best plan, we, Lion), 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:pg55:10:33
# text = “The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again,” remarked the Lion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
21	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the best plan |  |  |  |  | along the riverbank; walk *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | the road | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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