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title: “Please make yourselves comfortable while I go to the door of the Th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Please make yourselves comfortable while I go to the door of the Throne Room and tell Oz you are here.” Who acts: Oz, 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 17

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“Please make yourselves comfortable while I go to the door of the Throne Room and tell Oz you are here.”

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**Who acts:** Oz, I · **What happens:** make, go, tell, be · **To what, where:** Oz, door · **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, 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:pg55:13:17
# text = “Please make yourselves comfortable while I go to the door of the Throne Room and tell Oz you are here.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Throne	Throne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Room	Room	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | imperative | Oz *not said here* | Oz |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourselves=Product |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | the door of the Throne Room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Oz *not said here* |  | Oz |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Oz |  |  |  |  | here *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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