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title: Then the Stork with her great claws grabbed the Scarecrow by the arm… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Stork with her great claws grabbed the Scarecrow by the arm and carried him up into the air and back to the bank, where Dorothy and the Lion and the Tin Woodman and Toto were sitting. Who acts: Stork, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The De
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 51

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Then the Stork with her great claws grabbed the Scarecrow by the arm and carried him up into the air and back to the bank, where Dorothy and the Lion and the Tin Woodman and Toto were sitting.

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**Who acts:** Stork, Dorothy · **What happens:** grab, carry up, sit · **To what, where:** Scarecrow, road, air

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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 (Stork, Dorothy), 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:pg55:10:51
# text = Then the Stork with her great claws grabbed the Scarecrow by the arm and carried him up into the air and back to the bank, where Dorothy and the Lion and the Tin Woodman and Toto were sitting.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
28	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | the Stork with Stork's great claws | the Scarecrow |  |  | then | by the arm | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme |
| 2 | **carry up** | past | the Stork with Stork's great claws *not said here* | road |  | the air and the bank |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | Dorothy and the Lion and the Tin Woodman and Toto |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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