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title: She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen. Who acts: air, more accidents. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone, with its dependency tree and
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 52

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She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.

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**Who acts:** air, more accidents · **What happens:** creep, catch, drag, close, happen · **To what, where:** hole, Toto, room, trap door

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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 (air, more accidents), 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:pg55:2:52
# text = She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	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 | **creep** | past | air |  |  | the hole |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hole=Destination |
| 2 | **catch** | past |  | Toto |  |  |  | by the ear | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Theme |
| 3 | **drag** | past | air *not said here* | Toto |  | the room | again |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **close** | gerund | air *not said here* | the trap door |  |  |  | afterward *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **happen** | could | no more accidents |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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