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title: “No more than in any other city,” replied Oz; “but when you wear gre… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “No more than in any other city,” replied Oz; “but when you wear green spectacles, why of course everything you see looks green to you. Who acts: more, you. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 120

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“No more than in any other city,” replied Oz; “but when you wear green spectacles, why of course everything you see looks green to you.

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**Who acts:** more, you · **What happens:** reply, wear, see, look · **To what, where:** green spectacles, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (more, you), 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:pg55:17:120
# text = “No more than in any other city,” replied Oz; “but when you wear green spectacles, why of course everything you see looks green to you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	nsubj	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	_
25	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | present | you | green spectacles |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | of everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | present | more *not said here* |  | you |  |  | green *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to you=Experiencer |

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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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