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title: As Dorothy gazed upon this in wonder and fear, the eyes turned slowl… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As Dorothy gazed upon this in wonder and fear, the eyes turned slowly and looked at her sharply and steadily. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 61

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As Dorothy gazed upon this in wonder and fear, the eyes turned slowly and looked at her sharply and steadily.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** gaze, turn, look · **To what, where:** wonder

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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 (eyes), 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:pg55:13:61
# text = As Dorothy gazed upon this in wonder and fear, the eyes turned slowly and looked at her sharply and steadily.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past |  |  |  | wonder and fear |  | as Dorothy; upon this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon this=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the eyes |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | the eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sharply=Theme |

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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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