--- title: She sat down on the grass and looked at her companions, and they sat… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: She sat down on the grass and looked at her companions, and they sat down and looked at her, and Toto found that for the first time in his life he was too tired to chase a butterfly that flew past his head. Who acts: heart, companions, Toto, butterfly. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/) / 17 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 17 She sat down on the grass and looked at her companions, and they sat down and looked at her, and Toto found that for the first time in his life he was too tired to chase a butterfly that flew past his head. **Who acts:** heart, companions, Toto, butterfly · **What happens:** sit down, look, find, be, chase, fly · **To what, where:** grass, butterfly, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, companions, Toto, butterfly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:16:17 # text = She sat down on the grass and looked at her companions, and they sat down and looked at her, and Toto found that for the first time in his life he was too tired to chase a butterfly that flew past his head. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 43 past past ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | past | heart | | | the grass | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | | 2 | **look** | past | heart *not said here* | | | | | at heart's companions | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at companion=Theme | | 3 | **sit down** | past | companions *= companion* | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | past | companions *= companion* *not said here* | | | | | at heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | Toto | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | Toto | | | | time | tired *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **chase** | to-infinitive | Toto *not said here* | a butterfly | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme | | 8 | **fly** | past | a butterfly | | | Toto's head | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past head=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/18/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/)