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title: “He is powerful and terrible, and if you come on an idle or foolish… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “He is powerful and terrible, and if you come on an idle or foolish errand to bother the wise reflections of the Great Wizard, he might be angry and destroy you all in an instant.” Who acts: man, you. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, w
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 85

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“He is powerful and terrible, and if you come on an idle or foolish errand to bother the wise reflections of the Great Wizard, he might be angry and destroy you all in an instant.”

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**Who acts:** man, you · **What happens:** be, come, bother, destroy · **To what, where:** idle errand, wise reflections, you, instant

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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 (man, you), 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:pg55:12:85
# text = “He is powerful and terrible, and if you come on an idle or foolish errand to bother the wise reflections of the Great Wizard, he might be angry and destroy you all in an instant.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	destroy	destroy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	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* | present | man |  |  |  |  | powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  | a idle errand |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on errand=Location |
| 4 | **bother** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the wise reflections of the Great Wizard |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reflection=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | might | man |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **destroy** *in a quote* | present | man *not said here* | you |  | a instant |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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