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title: Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise. Who acts: Everyone, greatest sorrow, men, Oz. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 66

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Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, greatest sorrow, men, Oz · **What happens:** love, be, sorrow · **To what, where:** Oz, return

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, greatest sorrow, men, Oz), 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:pg55:16:66
# text = Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Everyone | Oz |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | could · past | Oz's greatest sorrow |  |  |  |  | find *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** | to-infinitive | Oz's greatest sorrow *not said here* |  |  | return |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | all men |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | all men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sorrow** |  | Oz |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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