--- title: Again the eyes looked at her sharply, and they saw she was telling t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Again the eyes looked at her sharply, and they saw she was telling the truth. Who acts: eyes, Witch. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/74/) [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/) / 74 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 74 Again the eyes looked at her sharply, and they saw she was telling the truth. **Who acts:** eyes, Witch · **What happens:** look, see, tell · **To what, where:** truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Witch), 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:pg55:13:74 # text = Again the eyes looked at her sharply, and they saw she was telling the truth. 1 Again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 sharply sharply ADV RB _ 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the eyes | | | | again | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sharply=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | Witch | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/75/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/)