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title: The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were rather frightened at first, f… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 53

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The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were rather frightened at first, for they remembered how badly the Winged Monkeys had treated them before; but they saw that no harm was intended, so they rode through the air quite cheerfully, and had a fine time looking at the pretty gardens and woods far below them.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, Monkeys · **What happens:** frighten, remember, wing, treat, see, intend · **To what, where:** Scarecrow, Winged Monkeys, harm, air

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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 (Scarecrow, Monkeys), 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:pg55:16:53
# text = The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were rather frightened at first, for they remembered how badly the Winged Monkeys had treated them before; but they saw that no harm was intended, so they rode through the air quite cheerfully, and had a fine time looking at the pretty gardens and woods far below them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
56	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
57	below	below	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **remember** | past | Scarecrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **treat** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Winged Monkeys |  |  |  | badly, before *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | Monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **intend** | past · passive |  | no harm |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **ride** | past | Monkeys *= monkey* |  |  | the air |  | cheerfully *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory |
| 8 | **have** | past | Monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **look** | gerund | Monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the pretty gardens and woods; far *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at garden=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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