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title: He sits day after day in the great Throne Room of his Palace, and ev… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: He sits day after day in the great Throne Room of his Palace, and even those who wait upon him do not see him face to face.” Who acts: person, those, Palace. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 39

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He sits day after day in the great Throne Room of his Palace, and even those who wait upon him do not see him face to face.”

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**Who acts:** person, those, Palace · **What happens:** sit, wait, not see, face · **To what, where:** great Throne Room, Palace

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, those, Palace), 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:pg55:12:39
# text = He sits day after day in the great Throne Room of his Palace, and even those who wait upon him do not see him face to face.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Throne	Throne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Room	Room	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | person |  |  | the great Throne Room of person's Palace | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **wait** | present | those |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | person | Palace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **face** | infinitive | Palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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