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title: At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies. Who acts: man, children. 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 prag
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 8

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At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.

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**Who acts:** man, children · **What happens:** sell, buy, see, pay · **To what, where:** green lemonade, one place, lemonade

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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 (man, children), 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:pg55:13:8
# text = At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past · progressive | a man | green lemonade |  | one place |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent lemonade=Theme at place=Asset |
| 2 | **buy** | past | the children | lemonade |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary dorothy=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pay** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for lemonade; with green pennies | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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