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title: But to those who are not honest, or who approach him from curiosity,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But to those who are not honest, or who approach him from curiosity, he is most terrible, and few have ever dared ask to see his face. Who acts: Wizard. 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 of ev
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 89

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But to those who are not honest, or who approach him from curiosity, he is most terrible, and few have ever dared ask to see his face.

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**Who acts:** Wizard · **What happens:** not be, approach, be, dare, ask, see · **To what, where:** Wizard, curiosity, few, face

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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 (Wizard), 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:pg55:12:89
# text = But to those who are not honest, or who approach him from curiosity, he is most terrible, and few have ever dared ask to see his face.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	approach	approach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
25	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to those; honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** | present |  | Wizard |  | curiosity |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Wizard |  |  |  |  | terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dare** | present · perfect · passive |  | few |  |  | ever |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Wizard's face |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |

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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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