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title: So the soldier was summoned and entered the Throne Room timidly, for… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So the soldier was summoned and entered the Throne Room timidly, for while Oz was alive he never was allowed to come farther than the door. Who acts: Oz, band. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 44

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So the soldier was summoned and entered the Throne Room timidly, for while Oz was alive he never was allowed to come farther than the door.

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**Who acts:** Oz, band · **What happens:** summon, enter, be, not allow, come · **To what, where:** soldier, Throne Room, band

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz, band), 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:pg55:20:44
# text = So the soldier was summoned and entered the Throne Room timidly, for while Oz was alive he never was allowed to come farther than the door.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Throne	Throne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Room	Room	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past · passive |  | the soldier |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **enter** | past |  |  | the Throne Room |  |  | timidly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Oz |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | band |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | band *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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