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title: And then they scampered in all directions, for Toto had awakened fro… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: And then they scampered in all directions, for Toto had awakened from his sleep, and seeing all these mice around him he gave one bark of delight and jumped right into the middle of the group. Who acts: ears, Toto, mouse. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Q
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 22

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And then they scampered in all directions, for Toto had awakened from his sleep, and seeing all these mice around him he gave one bark of delight and jumped right into the middle of the group.

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**Who acts:** ears, Toto, mouse · **What happens:** scamper, awaken, see, give, jump, sleep · **To what, where:** directions, sleep, mice, one bark, middle

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ears, Toto, mouse), 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:pg55:11:22
# text = And then they scampered in all directions, for Toto had awakened from his sleep, and seeing all these mice around him he gave one bark of delight and jumped right into the middle of the group.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	right	right	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scamper** | past | ears *= ear* |  |  | all directions | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 2 | **awaken** | past · perfect | Toto |  |  | Toto's sleep |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | all mice |  |  |  | around mouse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | past | mouse | one bark of delight |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme |
| 5 | **jump** | past | mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the middle of the group *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result |
| 6 | **sleep** |  | Toto |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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