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title: “Very well, I will give you that sort of courage tomorrow,” replied… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Very well, I will give you that sort of courage tomorrow,” replied Oz. Who acts: I. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 148

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“Very well, I will give you that sort of courage tomorrow,” replied Oz.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, reply, sort · **To what, where:** sort, you, courage tomorrow · **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 (I), 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:pg55:17:148
# text = “Very well, I will give you that sort of courage tomorrow,” replied Oz.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
16	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | I | that sort of courage tomorrow | you |  |  | well *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sort=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | courage tomorrow |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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