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title: When Dorothy had time to open these books she found them full of que… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When Dorothy had time to open these books she found them full of queer green pictures that made her laugh, they were so funny. Who acts: Dorothy, fountain, queer green pictures. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tre
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 32

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When Dorothy had time to open these books she found them full of queer green pictures that made her laugh, they were so funny.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, fountain, queer green pictures · **What happens:** have, open, find, make, laugh, be · **To what, where:** books, fountain

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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, fountain, queer green pictures), 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:pg55:13:32
# text = When Dorothy had time to open these books she found them full of queer green pictures that made her laugh, they were so funny.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | this books |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | fountain | books *= book* |  |  |  | full *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | past | queer green pictures | fountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **laugh** | infinitive | fountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

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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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