--- title: The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal. Who acts: woman, supper, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/) / 64 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 64 The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal. **Who acts:** woman, supper, Dorothy · **What happens:** call, be, gather, eat, scramble, enjoy · **To what, where:** supper, shapes, table, delicious porridge, meal · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, supper, Dorothy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:12:64 # text = The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 22 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 scrambled scramble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | the woman *not said here* | that supper | shapes *= shape* | | now | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | past | the woman | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **gather** | past | supper | | | the table | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | past | Dorothy | some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient | | 5 | **scramble** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **enjoy** | past | the woman *not said here* | woman's meal | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/65/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/)