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title: They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the still… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take. Who acts: travelers, stillness, 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 29

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They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.

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**Who acts:** travelers, stillness, Oz · **What happens:** keep, be, see, take · **To what, where:** one, Oz

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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 (travelers, stillness, 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:pg55:17:29
# text = They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | travelers *= traveler* |  | one |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the stillness of the empty room |  |  |  |  | than any; dreadful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | travelers *= traveler* | Oz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Oz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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