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title: “You see, here in our country we live contentedly, and can talk and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “You see, here in our country we live contentedly, and can talk and move around as we please. Who acts: You, we. 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 71

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“You see, here in our country we live contentedly, and can talk and move around as we please.

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**Who acts:** You, we · **What happens:** see, live, talk, move around · **To what, where:** country · **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 (You, we), 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:pg55:22:71
# text = “You see, here in our country we live contentedly, and can talk and move around as we please.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | our country; here |  | contentedly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | can | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **move around** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as we; around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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