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title: They walked along as fast as they could, Dorothy only stopping once… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They walked along as fast as they could, Dorothy only stopping once to pick a beautiful flower; and after a time the Tin Woodman cried out: “Look!” Who acts: trees, Dorothy, Tin Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, with its depen
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 36

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They walked along as fast as they could, Dorothy only stopping once to pick a beautiful flower; and after a time the Tin Woodman cried out: “Look!”

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**Who acts:** trees, Dorothy, Tin Woodman · **What happens:** walk, stop, pick, cry out, look · **To what, where:** beautiful flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, Dorothy, Tin Woodman), 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:pg55:10:36
# text = They walked along as fast as they could, Dorothy only stopping once to pick a beautiful flower; and after a time the Tin Woodman cried out: “Look!”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | along, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | gerund | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pick** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | a beautiful flower |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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