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title: He said he will grant you an audience, if you so desire; but each on… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: He said he will grant you an audience, if you so desire; but each one of you must enter his presence alone, and he will admit but one each day. Who acts: soldier, you, one. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 23

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He said he will grant you an audience, if you so desire; but each one of you must enter his presence alone, and he will admit but one each day.

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**Who acts:** soldier, you, one · **What happens:** say, grant, so, enter, admit · **To what, where:** audience, you, desire, presence · **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 (soldier, you, one), 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:pg55:13:23
# text = He said he will grant you an audience, if you so desire; but each one of you must enter his presence alone, and he will admit but one each day.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	so	so	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **grant** | future | soldier | a audience | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal audience=Theme |
| 3 | **so** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | desire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **enter** | must | each one of you | soldier's presence |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination |
| 5 | **admit** *speech: other* | future | soldier |  |  |  | day |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=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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