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title: “Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know,”… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know,” replied the Princess. Who acts: one, you, Princess. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 52

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“Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know,” replied the Princess.

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**Who acts:** one, you, Princess · **What happens:** not be, mend, know, reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, you, Princess), 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:pg55:22:52
# text = “Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know,” replied the Princess.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	mended	mend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
20	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | one |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mend** *in a quote* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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