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title: The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Do… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Dorothy, and she dressed her in one of the prettiest gowns, made of green brocaded satin. Who acts: green maiden, maiden. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its depe
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 42

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The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Dorothy, and she dressed her in one of the prettiest gowns, made of green brocaded satin.

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**Who acts:** green maiden, maiden · **What happens:** come, fetch, dress, make, brocade · **To what, where:** Dorothy, cat, prettiest gowns

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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 (green maiden, maiden), 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:pg55:13:42
# text = The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Dorothy, and she dressed her in one of the prettiest gowns, made of green brocaded satin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	gowns	gown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	brocaded	brocade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the green maiden |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the green maiden *not said here* | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | past | maiden | cat |  |  |  | in one of the prettiest gowns | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | the prettiest gowns *not said here* |  |  |  | of green brocaded satin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **brocade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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