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description: The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery. Who acts: waiting, Oz. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, wi
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 21

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The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery.

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**Who acts:** waiting, Oz · **What happens:** be, wear, vex, treat, send, undergo · **To what, where:** travelers, last, poor fashion, hardships

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waiting, Oz), 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:pg55:17:21
# text = The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	undergo	undergo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the waiting |  |  |  |  | tiresome *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | the waiting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vex** | past · passive |  | travelers *= traveler* |  | last |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **treat** | should | Oz | travelers *= traveler* |  | a poor fashion |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 5 | **send** | gerund | Oz *not said here* | travelers *= traveler* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **undergo** | to-infinitive | Oz *not said here* | hardships and slavery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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