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title: Dorothy looked inside the Golden Cap and saw some words written upon… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy looked inside the Golden Cap and saw some words written upon the lining. Who acts: Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 40

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Dorothy looked inside the Golden Cap and saw some words written upon the lining.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** look, see, write · **To what, where:** words

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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 (Dorothy), 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:pg55:16:40
# text = Dorothy looked inside the Golden Cap and saw some words written upon the lining.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lining	lining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | inside the Golden Cap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside cap=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Dorothy *not said here* | some words |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  | some words *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the lining | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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