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title: At the same time her own tears fell thick and fast at the joy of mee… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time her own tears fell thick and fast at the joy of meeting her old friend again, and these tears did not need to be wiped away. Who acts: own tears, joy, tears. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 23

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At the same time her own tears fell thick and fast at the joy of meeting her old friend again, and these tears did not need to be wiped away.

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**Who acts:** own tears, joy, tears · **What happens:** be, meet, not need, wipe away · **To what, where:** joy, 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 (own tears, joy, tears), 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:pg55:15:23
# text = At the same time her own tears fell thick and fast at the joy of meeting her old friend again, and these tears did not need to be wiped away.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | girl's own tears |  |  | the joy | time | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | girl's own tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | the joy *not said here* | girl's old friend |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **not** **need** | past · do-support | this tears |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **wipe away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | this tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |

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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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