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title: So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds. Who acts: strangers. 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 pragmatics o
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 15

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So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds.

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**Who acts:** strangers · **What happens:** pass, lead · **To what, where:** Palace Gates, big room

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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 (strangers), 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:pg55:13:15
# text = So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Gates	Gates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | strangers *= stranger* |  |  | the Palace Gates |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gates=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | past · passive | strangers *= stranger* *not said here* |  |  | a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into room=Destination |

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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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