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title: But when the Woodman entered the great Throne Room he saw neither th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the Woodman entered the great Throne Room he saw neither the Head nor the Lady, for Oz had taken the shape of a most terrible Beast. Who acts: Woodman, Oz. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 134

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But when the Woodman entered the great Throne Room he saw neither the Head nor the Lady, for Oz had taken the shape of a most terrible Beast.

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**Who acts:** Woodman, Oz · **What happens:** enter, see, take · **To what, where:** great Throne Room, Head, shape

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, Oz), 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:pg55:13:134
# text = But when the Woodman entered the great Throne Room he saw neither the Head nor the Lady, for Oz had taken the shape of a most terrible Beast.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc:preconj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the Woodman | the great Throne Room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | Woodman | the Head nor the Lady |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | Oz | the shape of a terrible Beast |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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