--- title: Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would c… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.” Who acts: I, country, people, everything. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Fr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/118/) [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/) / 118 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 118 Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.” **Who acts:** I, country, people, everything · **What happens:** think, be, call, make, put, see · **To what, where:** country, name, green spectacles · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, country, people, everything), 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:pg55:17:118 # text = Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 fit fit ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 31 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 spectacles spectacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 44 mark _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 40 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 44 nsubj _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | | | | then | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the country | | | | | green *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the country *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | would | I | country | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme city=Result | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | | the name | | | | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset name=Product | | 6 | **put** | past | I | green spectacles | | | | on all people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme on people=Destination | | 7 | **see** | past | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is** | past | everything | | | | | green *property* | tree rules | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/119/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/)