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title: After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw, and Doroth… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw, and Dorothy would lie beside him and put her head on his soft, shaggy mane, while they talked of their troubles and tried to plan some way to escape. Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy, Shoes. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 133

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After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw, and Dorothy would lie beside him and put her head on his soft, shaggy mane, while they talked of their troubles and tried to plan some way to escape.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, Dorothy, Shoes · **What happens:** eat, lie down, lie, put, talk, try · **To what, where:** bed, head, soft shaggy mane, way

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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 (Scarecrow, Dorothy, Shoes), 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:pg55:14:133
# text = After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw, and Dorothy would lie beside him and put her head on his soft, shaggy mane, while they talked of their troubles and tried to plan some way to escape.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
19	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | Scarecrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie down** | would | Scarecrow |  |  | Scarecrow's bed of straw |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | would | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | beside Scarecrow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 4 | **put** | past | Dorothy *not said here* | Dorothy's head |  | Scarecrow's soft shaggy mane |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on mane=Destination |
| 5 | **talk** | past | Shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  | of Shoes's troubles | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **try** | past | Shoes *= shoe* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **plan** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Shoes *= shoe* *not said here* | some way |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 8 | **escape** | to-infinitive | Shoes *= shoe* *not said here* | some way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **trouble** |  | Shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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