--- title: It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes;… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world. Who acts: room, dog, little spider. A sentence of «The Wonde --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/39/) [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 XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) / 39 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 39 It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world. **Who acts:** room, dog, little spider · **What happens:** not rest, lie down, not close, remain, stare, weave · **To what, where:** dog, eyes, web, corner 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 (room, dog, little spider), 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:pg55:13:39 # text = It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 weaving weave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 just just ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 49 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 50 advmod _ _ 50 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **rest** | would | room | dog | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lie down** | to-infinitive | room *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **close** | could | dog | dog's eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **remain** | past | dog | | | | night | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stare** | gerund | dog *not said here* | | | | | at a little spider | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spider=Theme | | 6 | **weave** | past · progressive | a little spider | room's web | | a corner of the room | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product | | 7 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | room | | | | | as one; of the wonderful rooms in the world | tree rules | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/40/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/)