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title: She was greatly astonished to find herself lying upon the grass, wit… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She was greatly astonished to find herself lying upon the grass, with thousands of mice standing around and looking at her timidly. Who acts: Dorothy, mice. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 52

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She was greatly astonished to find herself lying upon the grass, with thousands of mice standing around and looking at her timidly.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, mice · **What happens:** be, find, lie, stand around, look · **To what, where:** Dorothy, grass

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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 (Dorothy, mice), 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:pg55:11:52
# text = She was greatly astonished to find herself lying upon the grass, with thousands of mice standing around and looking at her timidly.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | astonished, greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | with thousands of mice | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon grass=Location |
| 4 | **stand around** | gerund | mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Dorothy; timidly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |

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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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