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title: “Therefore you have done a great deed, as well as a brave one, in sa… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Therefore you have done a great deed, as well as a brave one, in saving my life,” added the Queen. Who acts: you, Queen. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 14

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“Therefore you have done a great deed, as well as a brave one, in saving my life,” added the Queen.

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**Who acts:** you, Queen · **What happens:** do, save, add · **To what, where:** great deed, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Queen), 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:pg55:11:14
# text = “Therefore you have done a great deed, as well as a brave one, in saving my life,” added the Queen.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
23	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a great deed |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **save** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | my life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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