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title: For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days fo… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented. Who acts: Dorothy, friends. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, with its dependency tre
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 1

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For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, friends · **What happens:** hear, be, content · **To what, where:** nothing, Oz., sad days

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, friends), 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:pg55:19:1
# text = For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Oz.	Oz.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Dorothy | nothing |  | Oz. | day | for the little girl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic from oz.=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | this sad days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Dorothy's friends |  |  |  |  | all, happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **content** | participle | Dorothy's friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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