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title: So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the b… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length. Who acts: Dorothy. 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 ever
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 151

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So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** walk, stumble, not be, see, fall · **To what, where:** floor, bar, full length

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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), 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:pg55:14:151
# text = So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Dorothy |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stumble** | past | Dorothy |  |  | the bar |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bar=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **is** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | floor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fall** | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  | full length |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |

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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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