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title: They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups. Who acts: slaves. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tr
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 13

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They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

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**Who acts:** slaves · **What happens:** thank, bade, turn, walk, dot · **To what, where:** Scarecrow, West, fields, soft grass

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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 (slaves), 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:pg55:14:13
# text = They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	dotted	dot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	buttercups	buttercup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | slaves *= slave* |  | Scarecrow |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **bade** | past | slaves *= slave* *not said here* | Scarecrow |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past | slaves *= slave* *not said here* |  |  | the West |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward west=Trajectory |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund | slaves *= slave* *not said here* |  |  | fields of soft grass |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Trajectory |
| 5 | **dot** | participle |  | soft grass *not said here* |  | here |  | with daisies and buttercups | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with daisy=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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