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title: “When the Witch is dead, come to me, and I will then give you the bi… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “When the Witch is dead, come to me, and I will then give you the biggest and kindest and most loving heart in all the Land of Oz.” Who acts: Witch, dead, Beast. 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 pragma
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 151

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“When the Witch is dead, come to me, and I will then give you the biggest and kindest and most loving heart in all the Land of Oz.”

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**Who acts:** Witch, dead, Beast · **What happens:** be, come, give · **To what, where:** Beast, biggest loving heart, you, Land

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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 (Witch, dead, Beast), 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:pg55:13:151
# text = “When the Witch is dead, come to me, and I will then give you the biggest and kindest and most loving heart in all the Land of Oz.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
19	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	kindest	kind	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | the Witch |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | dead |  | the Beast *= beast* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the Beast *= beast* | the biggest loving heart | you | all Land of Oz. | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient heart=Theme |

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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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