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title: At last she crawled over the swaying floor to her bed, and lay down… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she crawled over the swaying floor to her bed, and lay down upon it; and Toto followed and lay down beside her. Who acts: future, Toto. 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 55

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At last she crawled over the swaying floor to her bed, and lay down upon it; and Toto followed and lay down beside her.

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**Who acts:** future, Toto · **What happens:** crawl, sway, lay down, follow · **To what, where:** last, floor

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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 (future, Toto), 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:pg55:2:55
# text = At last she crawled over the swaying floor to her bed, and lay down upon it; and Toto followed and lay down beside her.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | past | future |  |  | last |  | over the swaying floor to future's bed | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sway** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | future *not said here* |  |  | floor |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination |
| 4 | **follow** | past | Toto |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lay down** | infinitive | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside future; down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside she=Destination |

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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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