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title: If I should go out of this Palace my people would soon discover I am… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: If I should go out of this Palace my people would soon discover I am not a Wizard, and then they would be vexed with me for having deceived them. Who acts: I, people. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, with its dependency tree and
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 27

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If I should go out of this Palace my people would soon discover I am not a Wizard, and then they would be vexed with me for having deceived them.

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**Who acts:** I, people · **What happens:** go out, discover, not be, vex, have, deceive · **To what, where:** Palace, Wizard, people

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people), 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:pg55:19:27
# text = If I should go out of this Palace my people would soon discover I am not a Wizard, and then they would be vexed with me for having deceived them.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	obj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | I | this Palace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **discover** | would | my people |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | I | a Wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **vex** | would · passive |  | people |  |  | then | with me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **deceive** | past |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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