--- title: “Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well. Who acts: clouds, people. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/117/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the T…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/) / 117 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 117 “Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well. **Who acts:** clouds, people · **What happens:** amuse, keep, order, build, do · **To what, where:** clouds, good people, people, City, course This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:17:117 # text = “Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 amuse amuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 City city NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 willingly willingly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **amuse** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | clouds *= cloud* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | | 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the good people | | | | busy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **order** *in a quote* | past | clouds *= cloud* | | people | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **build** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | clouds *= cloud* *not said here* | this City | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset city=Beneficiary palace=Product | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | people | course | | | | willingly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/118/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/)