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title: She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after whi… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey. Who acts: girl, 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 pragmatics of every clause
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 37

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She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.

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**Who acts:** girl, wolves · **What happens:** thank, save, sit down, start, journey · **To what, where:** man, wolves

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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 (girl, wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:911`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:14:37
# text = She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | girl |  | man |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | gerund | girl *not said here* | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to breakfast | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **start** | past | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  | after breakfast; again | upon wolves's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **journey** |  | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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