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title: Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer y… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.” Who acts: Experience, only thing, you, more experience. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, with its d
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 135

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Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”

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**Who acts:** Experience, only thing, you, more experience · **What happens:** be, bring, get · **To what, where:** only thing, knowledge, earth

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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 (Experience, only thing, you, more experience), 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:pg55:17:135
# text = Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
1	Experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Experience | the only thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | the only thing | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  | earth |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the more experience |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | the more experience *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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