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title: The Scarecrow went in and found the little man sitting down by the w… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Scarecrow went in and found the little man sitting down by the window, engaged in deep thought. Who acts: Scarecrow, little man. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 10

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The Scarecrow went in and found the little man sitting down by the window, engaged in deep thought.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, little man · **What happens:** go in, find, sit down, engage · **To what, where:** little man, deep thought

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, little man), 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:pg55:18:10
# text = The Scarecrow went in and found the little man sitting down by the window, engaged in deep thought.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | the Scarecrow *not said here* | the little man |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 3 | **sit down** | gerund | the little man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the window; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location |
| 4 | **engage** | participle |  | the little man *not said here* |  |  |  | in deep thought *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in thought=Goal |

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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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