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title: There are wild beasts in the woods, and a race of queer men who do n… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There are wild beasts in the woods, and a race of queer men who do not like strangers to cross their country. Who acts: wild beasts, queer men. 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 of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 59

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There are wild beasts in the woods, and a race of queer men who do not like strangers to cross their country.

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**Who acts:** wild beasts, queer men · **What happens:** be, not like, cross, race · **To what, where:** woods, strangers, country

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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 (wild beasts, queer men), 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:pg55:20:59
# text = There are wild beasts in the woods, and a race of queer men who do not like strangers to cross their country.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | wild beasts |  |  | the woods; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | queer men | strangers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cross** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | queer men *not said here* | strangers's country |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 4 | **race** |  | queer men |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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