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title: Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 101

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Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so battered and dented that he could neither move nor groan.

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**Who acts:** Monkeys, poor Woodman, Toto · **What happens:** drop, fall, lie, batter, dent, move · **To what, where:** poor Woodman, great distance

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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 (Monkeys, poor Woodman, Toto), 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:pg55:14:101
# text = Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so battered and dented that he could neither move nor groan.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dented	dent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
30	groan	groan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | Monkeys *= monkey* | the poor Woodman |  | here |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the poor Woodman | a great distance |  |  |  | to the rocks *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient distance=Extent to rock=Result |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Toto |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **batter** | participle | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dent** | participle | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **move** | could | Toto |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **groan** | infinitive | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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