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title: When it was all ready, Oz sent word to his people that he was going… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was all ready, Oz sent word to his people that he was going to make a visit to a great brother Wizard who lived in the clouds. Who acts: basket, Oz, man, great brother. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, with its dependenc
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 39

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When it was all ready, Oz sent word to his people that he was going to make a visit to a great brother Wizard who lived in the clouds.

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**Who acts:** basket, Oz, man, great brother · **What happens:** be, send, go, make, live · **To what, where:** word, people, visit, clouds

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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 (basket, Oz, man, great brother), 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:pg55:19:39
# text = When it was all ready, Oz sent word to his people that he was going to make a visit to a great brother Wizard who lived in the clouds.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	Wizard	wizard	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | basket |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | Oz | word | man's people |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to people=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a visit |  |  |  | to a great brother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset visit=Product |
| 5 | **live** | past | a great brother |  |  | the clouds |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location |

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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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