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title: “Because if you did not wear spectacles the brightness and glory of… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Because if you did not wear spectacles the brightness and glory of the Emerald City would blind you. Who acts: you, Emerald City. 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 every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 93

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“Because if you did not wear spectacles the brightness and glory of the Emerald City would blind you.

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**Who acts:** you, Emerald City · **What happens:** not wear, glory · **To what, where:** spectacles

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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 (you, Emerald City), 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:pg55:12:93
# text = “Because if you did not wear spectacles the brightness and glory of the Emerald City would blind you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wear** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | spectacles |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source |
| 2 | **glory** *in a quote* |  | the Emerald City |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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