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title: “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. Who acts: matter, we, people. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, with its dependen
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 15

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“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.

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**Who acts:** matter, we, people · **What happens:** be, gray, people, live · **To what, where:** homes

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, we, people), 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:pg55:6:15
# text = “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gray	gray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | no matter |  |  |  |  | dreary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gray** *in a quote* | present | no matter *not said here* | our homes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
| 3 | **people** *in a quote* |  | we |  |  |  |  | of flesh and blood | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | would | people |  |  | there |  | than any other country | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | ever | beautiful *property* | 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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