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title: The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of the Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the Gates lived. Who acts: soldier, whiskers, Guardian. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, wi
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 1

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The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of the Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the Gates lived.

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**Who acts:** soldier, whiskers, Guardian · **What happens:** lead, reach, live · **To what, where:** whiskers, streets, room

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, whiskers, Guardian), 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:pg55:14:1
# text = The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of the Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the Gates lived.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Gates	Gate	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	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 | **lead** | past | the soldier with the green whiskers | whiskers *= whisker* |  | the streets of the Emerald City |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through street=Destination |
| 2 | **reach** | past | whiskers *= whisker* | the room |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | the Guardian of the Gates |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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