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title: “My lady fair, Why do you stare At poor old Mr. Joker? — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “My lady fair, Why do you stare At poor old Mr. Joker? Who acts: you. 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 59

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“My lady fair, Why do you stare At poor old Mr. Joker?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stare

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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 (you), 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:pg55:22:59
# text = “My lady fair, Why do you stare At poor old Mr. Joker?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stare	stare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	At	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Joker	joker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | at poor old Mr. Joker | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at joker=Theme |

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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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