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title: There was great rejoicing among the yellow Winkies, for they had bee… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There was great rejoicing among the yellow Winkies, for they had been made to work hard during many years for the Wicked Witch, who had always treated them with great cruelty. Who acts: Winkies. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, with its dependenc
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 3

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There was great rejoicing among the yellow Winkies, for they had been made to work hard during many years for the Wicked Witch, who had always treated them with great cruelty.

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**Who acts:** Winkies · **What happens:** be, rejoice, make, work, treat · **To what, where:** Winkies, Wicked Witch

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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), 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:pg55:15:3
# text = There was great rejoicing among the yellow Winkies, for they had been made to work hard during many years for the Wicked Witch, who had always treated them with great cruelty.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  | great *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rejoice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | among the yellow Winkies | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | Winkies *= winky* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | Winkies *= winky* *not said here* |  |  |  | year | for the Wicked Witch; hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for witch=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **treat** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Wicked Witch |  |  |  | with great cruelty; always *property* | 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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