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title: Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole. Who acts: Aunt. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 38

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Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.

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**Who acts:** Aunt · **What happens:** frighten, throw, open, climb down · **To what, where:** Em, trap door, floor, ladder, small dark hole

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aunt), 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:pg55:2:38
# text = Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Em	Em	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | participle |  | Em *not said here* |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Aunt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive | Aunt *not said here* | the trap door |  | the floor |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in floor=Location |
| 4 | **climb down** | past | Aunt *not said here* | the ladder |  | the small dark hole |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ladder=Theme |

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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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