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title: At first the little creatures, many though they were, could hardly s… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: At first the little creatures, many though they were, could hardly stir the heavily loaded truck; but the Woodman and the Scarecrow both pushed from behind, and they got along better. Who acts: orders, Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 62

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At first the little creatures, many though they were, could hardly stir the heavily loaded truck; but the Woodman and the Scarecrow both pushed from behind, and they got along better.

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**Who acts:** orders, Woodman · **What happens:** stir, load, push, get along · **To what, where:** loaded truck

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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 (orders, Woodman), 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:pg55:11:62
# text = At first the little creatures, many though they were, could hardly stir the heavily loaded truck; but the Woodman and the Scarecrow both pushed from behind, and they got along better.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	both	both	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	along	along	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | could · past | orders *= order* | the loaded truck |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus truck=Experiencer |
| 2 | **load** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | past | the Woodman and the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from behind=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **get along** | past | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  | along, good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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