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title: Seeing that she had really melted away to nothing, Dorothy drew anot… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing that she had really melted away to nothing, Dorothy drew another bucket of water and threw it over the mess. Who acts: Dorothy, Witch. 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 171

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Seeing that she had really melted away to nothing, Dorothy drew another bucket of water and threw it over the mess.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, Witch · **What happens:** see, melt away, draw, throw · **To what, where:** bucket, mess

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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, Witch), 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:pg55:14:171
# text = Seeing that she had really melted away to nothing, Dorothy drew another bucket of water and threw it over the mess.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **melt away** | past · perfect | Witch |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Dorothy | another bucket of water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | past | Dorothy *not said here* | bucket |  | the mess |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over mess=Destination |

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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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