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title: They got along quite well at first, but when they reached the middle… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They got along quite well at first, but when they reached the middle of the river the swift current swept the raft downstream, farther and farther away from the road of yellow brick. Who acts: Scarecrow, swift current. 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 7

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They got along quite well at first, but when they reached the middle of the river the swift current swept the raft downstream, farther and farther away from the road of yellow brick.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, swift current · **What happens:** get along, reach, sweep · **To what, where:** middle, raft

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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 (Scarecrow, swift current), 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:pg55:10:7
# text = They got along quite well at first, but when they reached the middle of the river the swift current swept the raft downstream, farther and farther away from the road of yellow brick.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	downstream	downstream	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get along** | past | Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | along, well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Scarecrow | the middle of the river |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | the swift current | the raft |  |  |  | downstream, far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme raft=Trajectory |

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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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