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title: When, at last, he walked into Dorothy’s room and thanked her for res… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When, at last, he walked into Dorothy’s room and thanked her for rescuing him, he was so pleased that he wept tears of joy, and Dorothy had to wipe every tear carefully from his face with her apron, so his joints would not be rusted. Who acts: Woodman, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 22

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When, at last, he walked into Dorothy’s room and thanked her for rescuing him, he was so pleased that he wept tears of joy, and Dorothy had to wipe every tear carefully from his face with her apron, so his joints would not be rusted.

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**Who acts:** Woodman, Dorothy · **What happens:** walk, thank, rescue, be, weep, have · **To what, where:** room, girl, Woodman, tears, tear, face

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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 (Woodman, Dorothy), 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:pg55:15:22
# text = When, at last, he walked into Dorothy’s room and thanked her for rescuing him, he was so pleased that he wept tears of joy, and Dorothy had to wipe every tear carefully from his face with her apron, so his joints would not be rusted.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rescuing	rescue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	rusted	rust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Woodman |  |  |  |  | into Dorothy's room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Woodman *not said here* |  | girl |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **rescue** | gerund | Woodman *not said here* | Woodman |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Woodman |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **weep** | past | Woodman | tears of joy |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wipe** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | every tear |  | Woodman's face |  | with girl's apron; carefully *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from face=Trajectory |
| 8 | **not** **rust** | would · passive |  | Woodman's joints |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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