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title: But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them. Who acts: Guardian, spectacles. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 3

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But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them.

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**Who acts:** Guardian, spectacles · **What happens:** unlock, put back, give, carry · **To what, where:** spectacles, green box, many good wishes, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guardian, spectacles), 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:pg55:21:3
# text = But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
5	unlocked	unlock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:outer	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	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 | **unlock** | past | Guardian | hands's spectacles |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient |
| 2 | **put back** | past | hands's spectacles |  |  | the green box |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | Guardian *not said here* | many good wishes | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient wish=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Guardian *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hands *= hand* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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