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title: As the Monkey King finished his story Dorothy looked down and saw th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Monkey King finished his story Dorothy looked down and saw the green, shining walls of the Emerald City before them. Who acts: Monkey King, story. 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
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 88

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As the Monkey King finished his story Dorothy looked down and saw the green, shining walls of the Emerald City before them.

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**Who acts:** Monkey King, story · **What happens:** finish, look down, see, shine · **To what, where:** green, walls

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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 (Monkey King, story), 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:pg55:16:88
# text = As the Monkey King finished his story Dorothy looked down and saw the green, shining walls of the Emerald City before them.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past | the Monkey King |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look down** | past | King's story |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | the Monkey King *not said here* | the green |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer green=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | the Monkey King *not said here* | walls of the Emerald City |  |  | before walls *= wall* |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=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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