--- title: But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that mos… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy. Who acts: people, most, balloon, beautiful place. A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/122/) [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/) / 122 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 122 But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy. **Who acts:** people, most, balloon, beautiful place · **What happens:** wear, think, be, abound, need, make · **To what, where:** green glasses, eyes, balloon, Emerald City, beautiful place, jewels 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 (people, most, balloon, beautiful place), 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:pg55:17:122 # text = But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 abounding abound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 42 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl:relcl _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 49 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 obj _ _ 50 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present · perfect | my people | green glasses | | people's eyes | | every good thing *obl*; long *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | most of people | balloon | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | most of people *not said here* | a Emerald City | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | balloon | a beautiful place | | | | certainly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **abound** | gerund | a beautiful place *not said here* | | | jewels and precious metals | | | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jewel=Location | | 6 | **need** | present · passive | | every good thing | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | | one | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | 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 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/123/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/)