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title: But if it is the lovely Lady I shall beg hard for a heart, for all l… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But if it is the lovely Lady I shall beg hard for a heart, for all ladies are themselves said to be kindly hearted.” Who acts: room, I. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 133

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But if it is the lovely Lady I shall beg hard for a heart, for all ladies are themselves said to be kindly hearted.”

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**Who acts:** room, I · **What happens:** be, beg, say, heart · **To what, where:** lovely Lady, ladies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, I), 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:pg55:13:133
# text = But if it is the lovely Lady I shall beg hard for a heart, for all ladies are themselves said to be kindly hearted.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	hearted	heart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | room | the lovely Lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | shall | I |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  | for all ladies | tree rules |
| 4 | **heart** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | tree rules |

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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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