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title: Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the ca… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the castle, where they were stuffed with nice, clean straw; and behold! here was the Scarecrow, as good as ever, thanking them over and over again for saving him. Who acts: Dorothy, Winkies. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 32

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Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the castle, where they were stuffed with nice, clean straw; and behold! here was the Scarecrow, as good as ever, thanking them over and over again for saving him.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, Winkies · **What happens:** pick up, have, carry back, stuff, be, thank · **To what, where:** clothes, castle, Scarecrow, Dorothy

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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 (Dorothy, 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:pg55:15:32
# text = Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the castle, where they were stuffed with nice, clean straw; and behold! here was the Scarecrow, as good as ever, thanking them over and over again for saving him.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Winkies	winky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	over	over	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	over	over	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	41	conj	_	_
45	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | Dorothy | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry back** | present | the Winkies | clothes |  | the castle |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 4 | **stuff** | past · passive |  | clothes |  |  |  | with nice clean straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with straw=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the Scarecrow |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* |  | clothes |  |  | over *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **save** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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