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title: So they sat down upon the bank and gazed wistfully at the Scarecrow… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So they sat down upon the bank and gazed wistfully at the Scarecrow until a Stork flew by, who, upon seeing them, stopped to rest at the water’s edge. Who acts: trees, Stork. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, with its dependency tree a
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 40

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So they sat down upon the bank and gazed wistfully at the Scarecrow until a Stork flew by, who, upon seeing them, stopped to rest at the water’s edge.

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**Who acts:** trees, Stork · **What happens:** sit down, gaze, fly, see, stop, rest · **To what, where:** bank, trees, edge

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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, Stork), 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:pg55:10:40
# text = So they sat down upon the bank and gazed wistfully at the Scarecrow until a Stork flew by, who, upon seeing them, stopped to rest at the water’s edge.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	wistfully	wistfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  | the bank |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the Scarecrow; wistfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at scarecrow=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | a Stork |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by who=Location |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | a Stork *not said here* | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stop** | past | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **rest** | to-infinitive | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  | the water's edge |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location |

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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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