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title: “I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” spoke the Beast, in a voice that… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who acts: Oz, voice. 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 141

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“I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.

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**Who acts:** Oz, voice · **What happens:** be, speak · **To what, where:** Oz, Beast, voice, one great roar · **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 (Oz, voice), 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:pg55:13:141
# text = “I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Oz | Oz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Oz | the Beast |  | a voice |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a voice | one great roar |  |  |  |  | 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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