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title: The strange creatures set the travelers down carefully before the ga… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The strange creatures set the travelers down carefully before the gate of the City, the King bowed low to Dorothy, and then flew swiftly away, followed by all his band. Who acts: strange creatures, King. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, wi
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 90

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The strange creatures set the travelers down carefully before the gate of the City, the King bowed low to Dorothy, and then flew swiftly away, followed by all his band.

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**Who acts:** strange creatures, King · **What happens:** set down, bow, fly, follow · **To what, where:** travelers, gate, Dorothy

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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 (strange creatures, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:1129`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:16:90
# text = The strange creatures set the travelers down carefully before the gate of the City, the King bowed low to Dorothy, and then flew swiftly away, followed by all his band.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	low	low	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set down** | past | the strange creatures | the travelers |  | the gate of the City |  | carefully *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent traveler=Theme before gate=Destination |
| 2 | **bow** | past | the King |  | Dorothy |  |  | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to dorothy=Pivot |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | participle | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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