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title: Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enou… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky. Who acts: Straightway. 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 41

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Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.

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**Who acts:** Straightway · **What happens:** come, fly, darken · **To what, where:** sky

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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 (Straightway), 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:pg55:14:41
# text = Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.
1	Straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	darken	darken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Straightway |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | Straightway *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward flock | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward she=Trajectory |
| 3 | **darken** | to-infinitive | Straightway *not said here* | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient |

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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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