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title: It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible. Who acts: country. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 12

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It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** long journey

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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:pg55:4:12
# text = It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | country | a long journey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a country |  |  |  |  | pleasant, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a country *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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