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title: The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry. Who acts: Winkies, Dorothy, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 12

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The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry.

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**Who acts:** Winkies, Dorothy, Lion · **What happens:** lift, carry back, shed, look, plight · **To what, where:** handle, Yellow Castle, few tears, sad plight, old friend

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winkies, Dorothy, Lion), 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:pg55:15:12
# text = The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
41	sober	sober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the Winkies | handle |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **carry back** | past | the Winkies *not said here* | handle | the Yellow Castle |  | again |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 3 | **shed** | gerund | Dorothy | a few tears |  | the sad plight of power's old friend |  | by the way | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | the Lion |  |  |  |  | sober *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **plight** |  |  | power's old friend |  |  |  |  | nom plight «state transitive»: of=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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