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title: I have played Wizard for so many years that I may as well continue t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: I have played Wizard for so many years that I may as well continue the part a little longer.” 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 157

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I have played Wizard for so many years that I may as well continue the part a little longer.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** play, continue · **To what, where:** part, many years

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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:pg55:17:157
# text = I have played Wizard for so many years that I may as well continue the part a little longer.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	Wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	cc	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · perfect | I | the part |  |  | year | long, wizard *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | may | I | many years |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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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