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title: She stood, with Toto in her arms, watching the sad fate of her comra… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She stood, with Toto in her arms, watching the sad fate of her comrades and thinking it would soon be her turn. Who acts: Dorothy, fate. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 107

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She stood, with Toto in her arms, watching the sad fate of her comrades and thinking it would soon be her turn.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, fate · **What happens:** stand, watch, think, be, fate · **To what, where:** arms, sad fate, turn, comrades · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dorothy, fate), 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:pg55:14:107
# text = She stood, with Toto in her arms, watching the sad fate of her comrades and thinking it would soon be her turn.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Dorothy |  |  | Dorothy's arms |  | with Toto | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* | the sad fate of Dorothy's comrades |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | would | fate | Dorothy's turn |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fate** |  |  | Dorothy's comrades |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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