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title: She saw all her wolves lying dead, and the strangers still traveling… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw all her wolves lying dead, and the strangers still traveling through her country. Who acts: Witch, wolves, strangers. 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 39

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She saw all her wolves lying dead, and the strangers still traveling through her country.

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**Who acts:** Witch, wolves, strangers · **What happens:** see, lie, travel · **To what, where:** wolves, country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Witch, wolves, strangers), 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:pg55:14:39
# text = She saw all her wolves lying dead, and the strangers still traveling through her country.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	traveling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	ccomp	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Witch | Witch's wolves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | Witch's wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **travel** | gerund | the strangers |  |  | Witch's country | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory |

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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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