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title: They looked at Dorothy and her strangely assorted company with wonde… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They looked at Dorothy and her strangely assorted company with wondering eyes, and the children all ran away and hid behind their mothers when they saw the Lion; but no one spoke to them. Who acts: people, children, one. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wo
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 5

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They looked at Dorothy and her strangely assorted company with wondering eyes, and the children all ran away and hid behind their mothers when they saw the Lion; but no one spoke to them.

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**Who acts:** people, children, one · **What happens:** look, assort, wonder, run away, hide, see · **To what, where:** Lion, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, children, one), 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:pg55:13:5
# text = They looked at Dorothy and her strangely assorted company with wondering eyes, and the children all ran away and hid behind their mothers when they saw the Lion; but no one spoke to them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	assorted	assort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | people |  |  |  |  | at Dorothy and sky's assorted company with wondering eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dorothy=Theme |
| 2 | **assort** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | strangely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **run away** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | all, away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | past | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind people's mothers | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind mother=Location |
| 6 | **see** | past | people | the Lion |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | no one |  | people |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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