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title: “You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when you put it on again.” Who acts: You, head. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 14

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“You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when you put it on again.”

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**Who acts:** You, head · **What happens:** be, take off, put on · **To what, where:** head, better one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, head), 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:pg55:18:14
# text = “You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when you put it on again.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take off** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | my head |  |  |  | off *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | head | a better one |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put on** *in a quote* | past | you | head |  |  | again |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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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