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title: Dorothy went to the Witch’s cupboard to fill her basket with food fo… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy went to the Witch’s cupboard to fill her basket with food for the journey, and there she saw the Golden Cap. Who acts: Dorothy, Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 45

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Dorothy went to the Witch’s cupboard to fill her basket with food for the journey, and there she saw the Golden Cap.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, Witch · **What happens:** go, fill, see · **To what, where:** cupboard, basket, Golden Cap

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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, Witch), 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:pg55:15:45
# text = Dorothy went to the Witch’s cupboard to fill her basket with food for the journey, and there she saw the Golden Cap.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Dorothy |  |  | the Witch's cupboard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cupboard=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | Witch's basket |  |  |  | with food; for the journey | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent basket=Patient with food=Instrument |
| 3 | **see** | past | Witch | the Golden Cap |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cap=Stimulus |

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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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