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title: Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours, with Toto sitting at her… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours, with Toto sitting at her feet and looking into her face, whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his little mistress. Who acts: life, Toto. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, wit
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 141

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Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours, with Toto sitting at her feet and looking into her face, whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his little mistress.

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**Who acts:** life, Toto · **What happens:** cry, sit, look, whine, show, be · **To what, where:** feet · **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 (life, 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:pg55:14:141
# text = Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours, with Toto sitting at her feet and looking into her face, whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his little mistress.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	whining	whine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
22	dismally	dismally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | would | life |  |  |  | hour | bitterly, sometimes *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Toto |  |  | life's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into life's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme |
| 4 | **whine** | gerund | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dismally *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Toto |  |  |  |  | for Toto's little mistress | tree rules |

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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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