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title: When the Wizard was given this message he was so frightened that he… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 23

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When the Wizard was given this message he was so frightened that he sent word for them to come to the Throne Room at four minutes after nine o’clock the next morning.

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**Who acts:** Wizard · **What happens:** give, be, send, come · **To what, where:** Wizard, word, Throne Room

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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 (Wizard), 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:pg55:17:23
# text = When the Wizard was given this message he was so frightened that he sent word for them to come to the Throne Room at four minutes after nine o’clock the next morning.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | the Wizard |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient message=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past · passive |  | Wizard |  |  |  | frightened *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | past | Wizard | word |  |  |  | for travelers *= traveler* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | Wizard *not said here* |  |  | the Throne Room | after nine o’clock  the next morning; minute |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |

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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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