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title: There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman. Who acts: forty wolves, wolves. 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 prag
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 33

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There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.

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**Who acts:** forty wolves, wolves · **What happens:** be, kill, lay · **To what, where:** forty times, heap

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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 (forty wolves, wolves), 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:pg55:14:33
# text = There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | forty wolves |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive |  | forty times |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | present | wolves *= wolf* |  |  | a heap | before the Woodman | dead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=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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