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title: They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg. Who acts: Dorothy, crowing, green cock. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 188

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They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, crowing, green cock · **What happens:** go, sleep, awaken, live, lay, crow · **To what, where:** bed, Dorothy, hen

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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 (Dorothy, crowing, green cock), 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:pg55:13:188
# text = They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crowing	crowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cackling	cackling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Dorothy |  |  | bed |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  | until daylight | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **awaken** | past · passive | the crowing of a green cock and the cackling of a hen | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | a green cock |  |  |  |  | in the back yard of the Palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yard=Location |
| 5 | **lay** | past · perfect · passive |  | a hen |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme egg=Destination |
| 6 | **crow** |  | a green cock |  |  |  |  |  | nom crowing «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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