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title: In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch. Who acts: sun, trees, Scarecrow. A sentence of
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 18

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In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch.

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**Who acts:** sun, trees, Scarecrow · **What happens:** shine, be, offer, lay down, fall, keep · **To what, where:** faces, buttercups, grass, watch

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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 (sun, trees, Scarecrow), 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:pg55:14:18
# text = In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
43	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
51	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	acl	_	_
52	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | buttercups's faces | afternoon | hot *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | no trees |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | to-infinitive | no trees *not said here* | buttercups *= buttercup* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal shade=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | so Dorothy and Toto and the Lion; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay down** | infinitive |  |  |  | the grass |  | with the Woodman and the Scarecrow; down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon grass=Destination |
| 6 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | gerund | the Scarecrow *not said here* | watch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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