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title: Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep. Who acts: Queen, mice, orders. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its depende
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 61

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Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.

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**Who acts:** Queen, mice, orders · **What happens:** give, start, fear, stay, fall · **To what, where:** order, people, poppies

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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 (Queen, mice, orders), 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:pg55:11:61
# text = Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	iobj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Queen | the order | people |  | then | hurriedly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | the order *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fear** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the mice |  |  | the poppies |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among poppy=Location |
| 5 | **fall** | would | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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