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title: “We are not so unlucky,” said the new ruler, “for this Palace and th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “We are not so unlucky,” said the new ruler, “for this Palace and the Emerald City belong to us, and we can do just as we please. Who acts: We, new ruler, Palace. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 14

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“We are not so unlucky,” said the new ruler, “for this Palace and the Emerald City belong to us, and we can do just as we please.

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**Who acts:** We, new ruler, Palace · **What happens:** not be, say, belong, do · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, new ruler, Palace), 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:pg55:20:14
# text = “We are not so unlucky,” said the new ruler, “for this Palace and the Emerald City belong to us, and we can do just as we please.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | We |  |  |  |  | unlucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the new ruler |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | this Palace and the Emerald City |  | us |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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