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title: Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly for sav… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly for saving her companion from death. Who acts: Dorothy. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 64

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Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly for saving her companion from death.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** come, meet, thank, save · **To what, where:** orders, little mice, companion, death

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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), 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:pg55:11:64
# text = Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly for saving her companion from death.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  | the little mice |  |  | warmly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* | Dorothy's companion |  | death |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent companion=Theme from death=Source |

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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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